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World Series Game 3 live updates: Yankees vs. Dodgers time, lineups, TV channel

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NEW YORK — This World Series has reached a fork in the road for Game 3: Coronation or competition? 

The New York Yankees will aim to pump life back into their season and revive hope that this Fall Classic will be an all-timer when they send Clarke Schmidt to the mound at Yankee Stadium to take on a Los Angeles Dodgers team that’s gotten increasingly hard to beat with each successive round. 

The Dodgers take a 2-0 Series lead into the Bronx and will hand the baseball to playoff ace Walker Buehler in hopes of grabbing a likely insurmountable lead. Just keep the bullpens ready: Schmidt has pitched 4 ⅓ innings in each of his playoff outings, one a Yankee win, while Buehler pitched four arduous albeit shutout innings in Game 3 of the NLCS, keying the Dodgers’ six-game triumph. 

Buehler is making his 18th career playoff start, and has struck out 107 batters across those 88 ⅔ innings. It’s also his third start in a World Series Game 3 and the Dodgers won the previous two, including their 18-inning win over the Boston Red Sox in 2018 after Buehler pitched seven shutout innings.

Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani is expected back in the lineup after suffering a shoulder subluxation in Game 2 on Saturday. Meanwhile, the Yankees hope Aaron Judge can reverse his 1-for-9, six-strikeout performance in the first two games. 

Follow along for live updates from Game 3:

With the New York Yankees hosting their first World Series game since 2009, the team will have someone that was part of that last championship team throw out the first pitch.

Derek Jeter, a five-time World Series champion and the Yankees’ all-time hits leader, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch before the Yankees take on the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 3 at Yankee Stadium on Monday.

The Baseball Hall of Famer spent all 20 seasons of his big league career in the pinstripes, and won his last World Series title with the franchise in 2009 when New York defeated the Philadelphia Phillies in six games. In that series, Jeter was 11-for-27 − a .407 batting average − with one RBI and five runs scored.

World Series Game 3 time tonight: Yankees vs. Dodgers

First pitch is scheduled for 8:08 p.m. ET on Monday at Yankee Stadium.

How to watch World Series Game 3

NEW YORK — An awkward slide and a shoulder subluxation can’t keep Shohei Ohtani out of the lineup for the World Series. 

Ohtani will once again bat leadoff in Game 3 Monday night as the World Series shifts to New York, two days after the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar partially dislocated his left shoulder on a stolen-base attempt in Game 2. 

Ohtani left the stadium immediately after the game, and after a day of both diagnostic tests and Ohtani expected to attempt swings off a tee and in a cage, the Dodgers determined he was good to go for Game 3. 

Ohtani flew separately from the team Sunday after getting further testing and manager Dave Roberts said Ohtani would be in the lineup against New York Yankees starter Clarke Schmidt if he could manage the pain. The team does not believe Ohtani risks further injury by playing. 

– Gabe Lacques

Yankees lineup today: Game 3

  1. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
  2. Juan Soto (L) RF
  3. Aaron Judge (R) CF
  4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
  5. Jazz Chisholm Jr. (L) 3B
  6. Anthony Volpe (R) SS
  7. Anthony Rizzo (L) 1B
  8. Jose Trevino (R) C
  9. Alex Verdugo (L) LF

Dodgers lineup today: Game 3

  1. Shohei Ohtani (L) DH
  2. Mookie Betts (R) RF
  3. Freddie Freeman (L) 1B
  4. Teoscar Hernández (R) LF
  5. Max Muncy (L) 3B
  6. Will Smith (R) C
  7. Gavin Lux (L) 2B
  8. Enrique Hernández (R) CF
  9. Tommy Edman (S) SS

Yankee Stadium has to be a fortress: ‘We need our fans more than ever’

NEW YORK — It has been 15 years, nearly to the day, since Shane Victorino rolled a slow ground ball to second baseman Robinson Cano and, before Cano could even complete the throw to first, a sea of pinstriped gentlemen began streaming out of Yankee Stadium’s first base dugout to celebrate the team’s 27th championship.

That 7-3 conquest of the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6 of the 2009 World Series was the last Fall Classic game contested in the Bronx, a dry spell that will be broken Monday night.

It is not what the Yankees wanted, coming home to a 2-0 deficit in this World Series, with a pair of dispiriting losses in Los Angeles that only provided so much consolation in the fact the Yankees went toe-to-toe with the Dodgers – who needed a walk-off Freddie Freeman grand slam to win Game 1 – only to come up short twice.

Enter the homefield advantage.

“I think we need our fans more than ever right now, for sure,” says first baseman Anthony Rizzo. “They back us, they pump us up, they put pressure on other teams. The Bronx is a special place. When that stadium is rocking, we feel it.

“We need every ounce of their energy coming into Monday.”

– Gabe Lacques

How will this year’s World Series play out? Using the Dynasty League Baseball online simulation, USA TODAY Sports’ Steve Gardner and DLB designer Mike Cieslinski will pre-play each game to provide some insight into the key matchups and strategy fans can expect to see in the Fall Classic.

With a pair of big innings early, the Los Angeles Dodgers made quick work of the New York Yankees, rolling to a 9-5 victory in Game 3 of USA TODAY Sports’ annual Simulated World Series.

The Dodgers jumped on Yankees starter Clarke Schmidt for three quick runs in the first, then knocked him out with a five-spot in the third on their way to taking a 2-1 lead in the series.

The Dodgers wasted no time in hammering Yankees Game 3 starter Clarke Schmidt. Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts began the game with consecutive singles, but Schmidt looked like he might be able to get out of the inning unscathed when Freddie Freeman grounded into a double play.

Teoscar Hernandez put L.A. on top though with an RBI single and Max Muncy followed with a two-run homer into Yankee Stadium’s short porch in right field and the Dodgers were on their way.

The first two Yankees also singled in the bottom of the first, but Aaron Judge grounded out and Dodger starter Walker Buehler struck out Giancarlo Stanton and Jazz Chisholm to end the threat.

Schmidt worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the second, but couldn’t survive the third as Tommy Edman doubled in two, Miguel Rojas added an RBI single and Ohtani hit a mammoth blast to right center – all with two outs – to make it 8-0.

The Yanks did score twice in the eighth and got a three-run homer from Gleyber Torres in the ninth, but it wasn’t enough.

– Steve Gardner

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