Right down to their closing out with the sport on the road, the Dodgers got here via within the clutch.

Dodgers’ first baseman Freddie Freeman crushed a little question, walk-off grand slam to provide L.A. a 6-3 victory over the New York Yankees in Sport 1 of the 2024 World Sequence.

The sport profitable house run was the primary ever walk-off grand slam in World Series historical past.

After Yankees left fielder Alex Verdugo made a great running catch into the stands to retire Shohei Ohtani and maintain the runners at first and second base. Supervisor Aaron Boone nonetheless determined to stroll Mookie Betts to load the bases for Freeman and coincidingly usher in Nestor Cortes for the lefty-vs-lefty-matchup, however the southpaw hadn’t pitched since Sept. 18 as he was coping with an elbow damage and missed each the ALDS and ALCS earlier than being activated forward of Sport 1.

The 2020 Nationwide League MVP made Boone pay for that call, clubbing the primary pitch he noticed 423 ft to the correct area bleachers, sending Los Angeles in a frenzy because the group is now solely three wins away from their second World Sequence in 5 years.