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World Series live updates: Dodgers vs. Yankees Game 2 time, predictions, TV channel

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After an instant classic in Game 1, the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees are right back at it for the second game of the 2024 World Series on Saturday night.

Freddie Freeman hit the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history to win the opener for the Dodgers, who took a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven Fall Classic. Freeman’s historic 10th-inning blast capped off a thrilling game at Dodger Stadium that featured a little bit of everything, the first World Series meeting between the two historic franchises since 1981.

“That’s as good as it gets right there,” Freeman told reporters after the game.

Hoping to even the series, $162 million lefty Carlos Rodon takes the mound for the Yankees, while $325 million rookie right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto starts Game 2 for the Dodgers in Los Angeles.

Follow along for live updates from Saturday’s showdown:

World Series Game 2 time: Dodgers vs Yankees

First pitch on Saturday is scheduled for 8:08 p.m. ET.

  • Location: Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California
  • Date: Saturday, Oct. 26

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  • Yankees: Carlos Rodón (16-9, 3.96 ERA) – Signed for $162 million in the 2022-23 offseason, the left-hander has  4.40 ERA – but a 2.12 FIP – in three starts this postseason, striking out 22 in 14 ⅓ innings with only one walk.
  • Dodgers: Yoshinobu Yamamoto (7-2, 3.00 ERA) – The $325 million Japanese import has made three starts in the 2024 postseason, posting a 5.11 ERA in 12 ⅓ innings.

Yankees lineup today: World Series Game 2

  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 Rizzo (L) 1B
  7. Anthony Volpe (R) SS
  8. Austin Wells (L) C
  9. Alex Verdugo (L) LF
  1. Shohei Ohtani (L) DH
  2. Mookie Betts (R) RF
  3. Teoscar Hernández (R) LF
  4. Freddie Freeman (L) 1B
  5. Tommy Edman (S) CF
  6. Enrique Hernández (R) 2B
  7. Max Muncy (L) 3B
  8. Will Smith (R) C
  9. Miguel Rojas (R) SS

Freddie Freeman’s grand slam: ‘The greatest baseball moment I’ve ever witnessed’

LOS ANGELES — It was Kirk Gibson all over again.

It was Roy Hobbs in “The Natural.”

It was classic Hollywood.

“It might be,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, “the greatest baseball moment I’ve ever witnessed.”

Freddie Freeman, who could barely walk a week ago with his badly sprained ankle, who left the team this summer and didn’t know if he’d return with his 3-year-old son fighting for his life, stepped to the plate Friday night in front a screaming crowd of 52,394, and produced one of the most dramatic events in World Series history.

With one swing of the bat, Freeman created a memory that may never be forgotten in Dodgers lore, a two-out, walk-off grand slam in the 10th inning, leading the Dodgers to a 6-3 victory over the New York Yankees in Game 1 of the World Series.

– Bob Nightengale

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