Dodgers vs. Yankees Score: World Series Game 3
NEW YORK — This World Series reaches a fork in the road for Game 3: Coronation or contest?
The New York Yankees will aim to breathe life back into their season and raise hopes that this Fall Classic will be one of the best ever when they send Clark Schmidt to the mound at Yankee Stadium to take on an increasingly difficult Los Angeles Dodgers team. Beat with each successive round.
The Dodgers take a 2-0 series lead into the Bronx and will hand the baseball to playoff star Walker Buehler in hopes of grabbing a potentially insurmountable lead. Just keep the bullpens ready: Schmidt has pitched 4 ⅓ innings in each of his playoff outings, a Yankee win, while Buehler pitched four tough but shutout innings in Game 3 of the NLCS, keying the Dodgers' six-game winning streak.
Buehler is making his 18th career playoff start, and has struck out 107 batters over those 88 ⅔ innings. It was his third start in a World Series Game 3 and the Dodgers had won the previous two, including their 18-inning victory over the Boston Red Sox in 2018 after Buehler pitched seven shutout innings.
Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani is expected to return to the lineup after suffering a shoulder strain 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.
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Giancarlo Stanton threw to the plate
NEW YORK – The New York Yankees' moribund offense finally got a hit, two, and even then a stunning defensive play kept them off the scoreboard.
Los Angeles Dodgers left fielder Teoscar Hernandez fielded a one-hop single to Anthony Volpe, and 6-6 slugger Giancarlo Stanton ran as hard as he could with two outs, making a throw to catcher Will Smith that skidded on a hop — caught by his glove. Chest Stanton.
The 7-2 putout quieted the already subdued Yankee Stadium crowd and put the Dodgers up 3-0 after four innings.
Dodgers extend lead: Dodgers 3, Yankees 0
NEW YORK – Three innings into Game 3 of the World Series and the gap between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees is only going to widen.
Yankee starter, Clark Schmidt, was lifted in the third inning with the bases loaded, trailing 3-0.
Dodger starter, Walker Buehler, didn't allow five hits through three innings.
And after falling into a 2-0 series deficit in a game the Yankees must win, the landscape is once again tilting in favor of the Dodgers.
They added to their lead when Mookie Betts won a nine-pitch battle with Schmidt and dropped a one-out RBI single to right field in the third inning, scoring Tommy Edman, who read the play perfectly.
Reliever Mark Leiter Jr. escaped the last bases-loaded jam. But Yankee Stadium is very quiet. And the Yankees are running out of time.
Freddie Freeman does it again: Dodgers 2, Yankees 0
NEW YORK – Even with Shohei Ohtani playing with, essentially, one arm, the Los Angeles Dodgers are proving too strong for the New York Yankees.
Because Freddie Freeman is back.
The Dodgers' first baseman hit his third home run of the World Series and LA took a 2-0 lead in Game 3 before missing the Yankees' bat in their first home Fall Classic game since 2009. .
Freeman's walk-off grand slam turned the series around, and now it may be out of reach. Ohtani, still in the lineup after a slightly dislocated shoulder two days earlier, drew a four-pitch walk from Yankees starter Clark Schmid and, after an out, Freeman rolled a line drive into the seats just over the right-field fence, a 355-foot shot.
It was the fifth consecutive World Series game that Freeman had homered, dating to the 2021 Series with Atlanta. That tied him with George Springer — and moved him ahead of Reggie Jackson and Lou Gehrig — for the longest streak in World Series history. All of this comes after Freeman sat out a pair of games in the NLCS with a serious ankle injury in late September.
Meanwhile, Yankees superstar Aaron Judge struck out in his first Yankee Stadium World Series plate appearance, and now has seven strikeouts in 10 at-bats.
Salvador Perez earned the Roberto Clemente Award before 3 games
NEW YORK – Salvador Perez finally returned to the playoffs this year after a nearly decade-long absence. Yet his influence never left Venezuela and Kansas City.
Perez, the Royals' nine-time All-Star catcher and potential future Hall of Famer, received the Roberto Clemente Award in a ceremony at Yankee Stadium before Game 3 of the World Series on Monday night.
Perez, 34, has previously been nominated for baseball's most notable honor for his off-field community efforts. He has provided food and medicine every winter for families in his hometown of Valencia, Venezuela, and paid for thousands of children's surgeries to repair cleft lips. Perhaps most notably, he aided relief efforts in neighboring Colombia during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, entering the country on foot when car travel was prohibited.
He also donated $1 million to the Royals' youth academy in Kansas City.
“If you pick just one day a month — two or three hours — to have fun,” Perez said Monday night before Game 3, “go make some kids happy, they'll never forget.” – Gabe Lacks, USA TODAY Sports
Jose Trevino started for the Yankees, with Austin Wells on the bench
NEW YORK — One swing of Jose Trevino's bat could have influenced Aaron Boone's thinking for Game 3.
Down two games to none in the 120th World Series, the Yankees made a lineup change for Monday night's game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Austin Wells is out of the lineup and Trevino is at catcher, with Clark Schmidt on the mound in an obviously critical Game 3, the first World Series game in the Bronx in 15 years.
Wells is 1-for-8 with three strikeouts in the series so far, and the lefty-hitting rookie is batting just .098 this postseason (4-for-41) with a homer and three RBIs.
Trevino has made just one start this postseason after catching Schmidt in Game 3 of the AL Championship Series in Cleveland, which the Yankees lost 7-5 to the Guardians in 10 innings.
Trevino's first at-bat in the World Series ended Game 2 Saturday night at Dodger Stadium. Serving as a pinch-hitter for Wells, he flied out to deep center, loading the bases in a 4–2 Yankees loss. – Pete Caldera, NorthJersey.com
Jeter threw out the official first pitch for Game 3
As the New York Yankees hosted their first World Series game since 2009, the team had someone who was part of that last championship team throw out the first pitch.
Derek Jeter, the five-time World Series champion and Yankees' all-time hits leader, threw out the ceremonial first pitch before the Yankees' game against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 3 at Yankee Stadium on Monday.
The Baseball Hall of Famer spent 20 seasons of his major league career in 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. – Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY Sports
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Shohei Ohtani injury update
NEW YORK — An awkward slide and a shoulder strain won't keep Shohei Ohtani out of the World Series lineup.
Ohtani will again bat leadoff in Game 3 after the World Series moved to New York two days after the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar partially dislocated his left shoulder in 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 try a tee off and a swing at the cage, the Dodgers determined he was good to go in Game 3.
Ohtani flew separately from the team Sunday after further tests, and manager Dave Roberts said Ohtani would be in the lineup against New York Yankees starter Clark Schmitt if he could handle the pain. The team does not believe playing Ohtani poses a further injury risk.
– Gabe Lacks
Yankees lineup today: Game 3
- Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
- Juan Soto (L) RF
- Aaron Judge (R) C.F
- Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
- Jazz Chisholm Jr. (L) 3B
- Anthony Volpe (R) SS
- Anthony Rizzo (L) 1b
- Jose Trevino (R) c
- Alex Verdugo (L) LF
Dodgers lineup today: Game 3
- Shohei Ohtani (L) DH
- Mookie Bates (R) RF
- Freddie Freeman (L) 1b
- Teoscar Hernandez (R) LF
- Max Muncie (L) 3B
- Will Smith (R) c
- Gavin Lux (L) 2B
- Enrique Hernandez (R) CF
- Tommy Edman (S) SS
Yankee Stadium needs to be a fortress: 'We need fans more than ever'
NEW YORK — It's been 15 years since Shane Victorino rolled a slow ground ball to second baseman Robinson Cano, and before Cano could complete the throw to first, a sea of pinstriped gentlemen began streaming out of Yankee Stadium. The team's 27th celebration is in the first base dugoutm Championship
The Philadelphia Phillies' 7-3 victory in Game 6 of the 2009 World Series was the last Fall Classic game of the rivalry in the Bronx, a dry spell that will be broken Monday night.
Not what the Yankees wanted, with a pair of disappointing losses in Los Angeles in this World Series, 2-0, which provided only solace as 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 homefield advantage.
First baseman Anthony Rizzo said, “I think our fans need us more now than ever. “They support us, they pump us up, they push other teams. The Bronx is a special place. When that stadium rocks, we feel it.
“We need every ounce of energy they have coming into Monday.”
– Gabe Lacks
Simulated World Series: Game 3 goes to the Dodgers
How will this year's World Series? 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 tactics fans can expect to see in the Fall Classic.
With a pair of big innings early on, the Los Angeles Dodgers made quick work of the New York Yankees, winning 9-5 in Game 3 of USA TODAY Sports' annual simulated World Series.
The Dodgers jumped on Yankees starter Clark Schmid for three quick runs in the first, then knocked him in with a five-spot in the third to take a 2-1 series lead.
The Dodgers wasted no time hammering Yankees Game 3 starter Clark Schmidt. Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts led off with back-to-back singles, but Schmidt looked like he would be able to get out of the inning unscathed when Freddie Freeman grounded into a double play.
Teoscar Hernandez put LA on top though with an RBI single and Max Muncie's two-run homer into the short right field balcony at Yankee Stadium 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 Bueller struck out Giancarlo Stanton and Jazz Chisholm to end the threat.
Schmidt got out of a bases-loaded jam in the second, but couldn't hold on in the third as Tommy Edman doubled in two, Miguel Rojas added an RBI single and Ohtani hit a huge blast to right center — all with two outs — to make it 8- 0.
The Yanks scored 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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