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The Dodgers are one win away from their eighth World Series championship.

He's found the seats again.

The Dodgers lead the World Series three games to nothing. No one has ever come

back from 3 -0 in a World Series.

Let's go!

This thing is O -B -E -R.

Got him!

Over. We're in a tough position.

We're just looking to try to play a little bit better.

We took a punch, and we just haven't been able to respond yet.

Swing and a miss, strike three.

It was going to be a dunk fight, so we're going to come out swinging.

Now our back's up against the wall.

You know there's no tomorrow anymore.

There really isn't. The Dodgers have a lot of respect for this Yankees team.

They know they're explosive.

They understand the job is not finished.

They do have their foot on the back of their neck, but it's not over. Crazy

things can happen.

Dave Roberts knows it better than anybody.

You're one of the few people on earth who know.

what it's like to come back from a 3 -0 deficit.

Don't talk about that.

Wrong guy.

Dave Roberts, he was part of that Red Sox team that overcame a three -game

deficit to the Yankees in the American League Championship Series.

What did you learn from that that you can take and do it now that you're on

other side?

We have got to stay focused, stay urgent.

In postseason baseball history.

I don't want to let these guys up there because anything's possible.

If the Yankees win tonight, I'm telling you, it's the Dodgers that feel the

pressure.

Do not let these guys up. I mean, really, do not let the thing come back

Angeles.

Look ahead to game four tonight.

The possible closeout scenario for the Dodgers of three games to nothing.

It really has been Mookie and Freddie so far in the first three games of this

World Series.

Freddie Freeman continues to absolutely dominate here in the postseason.

Yet another home run in game three last night.

Do you want him?

No. Toto?

Yeah.

He's good.

He's very good.

Yesterday, Charlie was like, Daddy, you might, maybe you could win, like, MVP.

But I don't even think he's had a second to really soak it in yet.

His only focus, really, is winning the World Series.

He takes it so seriously.

I think that's how he, like, thrives in baseball, is, like, being so intense the

way that he is.

Years ago, Fred gifted Freddie a necklace.

with a cross and it has his mom's hair in the cross so freddie never takes that

off even while he's playing it actually broke right before the world series and

we had to like overnight it to the jeweler and then like they got it back

like before game one but we're like we need this back asap so young when she

passed away he was only 10 but he said one of his earliest memories that he

remembers was that he was at one of his super young games his mom was sitting

like in the outfield

and he hit a home run, and it literally, like, almost hit his mom, and I guess

she was just jumping up and down, like, freaking out, like, so happy.

Oh, that's going to make me want to cry, but I feel like she was probably doing

that in heaven when he hit his current slam.

Baseball is such a crazy game. You can be like Aaron Judge. You're incredible

all year, but it's like impossible to be good the whole time. You know, it's

like you get hot at a certain time and you can't control when you're hot or

It's just how the game goes.

It's rough.

So you never know what could happen.

Well, it's happened.

We can actually say.

This is a literal must -win for the New York Yankees. They win.

They force a game five with Garrett Cole on the mound.

They lose, and they go home.

It's over.

We go four in a row. They win three in a row. We go four in a row.

New York goes bigger in order. Who hears me? New York goes bigger in order.

It's game four of the 2024 World Series.

The Dodgers up three games to none over the New York Yankees and 27 outs away

from a world championship.

This is it. You win this game or you go home.

Yankee baseball!

Yankee baseball!

Yankee baseball!

I knew it was going to be loud. The fans are going to be into it.

It does feel like a very intimate stadium.

You can kind of sense the fans' presence right on top of you.

Game four, we're looking around the dugout. Every single guy wanted the at

Every single guy wanted the ball.

And we were going to do whatever it took.

For the Yankees, the 26 -year -old rookie, Luis Hill, starts with the

season on the line.

I think that he has the stuff to be a potential Cy Young winner.

In our pregame meeting, it wasn't so much, hey, we're rookies doing the World

Series game four.

It was more like, let's go win. Let's go run after these guys because we can.

Hey, we're going to work together. If you don't like a pitch, just ask me.

talk to you and I'll tell you the truth.

But we're not going to go back and forth.

Dave Roberts sends this lineup to the plate. Pots on it, leading things off.

then back in Freeman.

And here comes the pitch from the refuel.

And see, that's the only problem. This is his first home

postseason start. The adrenaline is rushing.

Ohtani sends a pop fly into Seattle's center field.

We're off and on in game four with a pop out to short.

Obviously, Shohei was hurt, compromised, and he wasn't swinging the bat great.

But to still hang in there, that was huge.

And the batter now will be Mookie Betts.

That's poked down the line and a fair ball into the right field corner.

The ball finally gets to Soto. Mookie will stand up at second with a one -out

double on the top of the first.

Freddie Freeman at the plate.

Trying to start it early for the Dodgers again. He ended game one. He started

game three.

A little rainfall in here in game four. He's up there with Betts at second.

Swing and a ball drilled.

Right field. Turning back. Gone.

He's done it again.

I was on fire.

Everything that he got up and the strike zone, it was for a homer.

I was like, yes, we're up 2 -0 again, and we're going to go for the sweep

Unbelievable. 2 -0 Dodgers like that.

I just felt we had all the momentum.

And not to say that I thought we were going to run away with it, but I felt we

had the game in hand.

Good luck, people.

We'll get better.

So a 2 -0 lead.

The bottom of the first is about to begin.

You know, everyone was talking about you just need to score first.

Sure, we want to get a lead, but we can win if we don't, too.

And we've got no choice right now.

Just play.

Compete. Leave it all out there.

What an opportunity for the rookie, Ben Kasperius. It wasn't that long ago Ben

was in the minors, and here he is starting a potential World Series

the Dodgers.

That's all right. That's in the corner.

Does he have one?

Yeah, take his fucking glove.

Hey, hey, hey.

Yankee fan ripped it out of him. Oh, shit.

That says that ball in his glove, and his fan literally tries to take his

off.

Hey, that's a cap.

You're good, Mookie.

And they're going to say that it's an out in fan interference.

That was really wild. I've never experienced anything like that. I don't

what he was really trying to do.

It was like the second time in my life I've ever wanted to fight someone.

So Betts went right into the corner of the wall.

Well, he's got the ball. You can see it. He's got his glove. The fan in the

Yankee uniform is trying the ball out of Mookie's glove.

I mean, absolutely absurd.

We knew from that moment that they were going to do anything in their power to

get into our heads.

This guy should be kicked out of this game. I couldn't agree more. Oh, my

goodness. My 40 -odd years of broadcasting baseball, I've never seen

never seen that.

So, one gone, and here's Soto.

Conspirous throw.

Ball four. Four -pitch walk, and the Yankees have their first baserunner.

So, a broken record on this, but somebody's got to give a jolt to this

and to this stadium.

Aaron Judge comes up.

You don't throw that fastball in a good spot right here, you're looking to tie a

game.

Ball left off the plate.

Outside ball walked, judge walked, and the Yankees have the tying runs on to

plate from Stanley.

This guy's been one of their best hitters all postseason.

Now here's Mark Breyer with pitching goals to come up.

In the postseason, you've got to turn into a street fighter.

And with street fighting, There are no rules.

These guys have long arms, and if they get extended, they're going to really

hurt you, so you have to crowd them.

You don't try to hit anybody or let alone hurt anybody, but you just can't

them have their way and lean out of the plate. That's just baseball.

Ground ball.

There's Gavin Luck. Straight up hit the bag at second. Throws on the run across

his body. And Ben Kasparius wiggles out of a jam in the bottom of the third.

Hey, Ben. How you doing, bro? That's exciting, huh? Oh, my God.

Exactly.

It only gets better. I know.

I know. A couple good takes by Judge, huh? Yeah. Wow.

We go to the bottom of the second inning.

The Yankees try to do something that's never been done. Come back from down 3

-0. Well, Susan, one thing. The Yankees can't wait long tonight.

No, no. It's already 2 -0. They can't wait long.

Now here's Anthony Holtry, the young shortstop.

And another walk.

Here's the catcher, left -handed in Austin Wells.

I just felt like.

In that game, they have the pressure. They have to win one more and go up

and enjoy it and light the last pitch.

Hit in the air, right center field. K .K. Hernandez on the run. He's at the

wall. He cannot miss the catch.

The bounce is off the wall.

It ends up being a double for Austin Wells.

Colby goes to third, and they're going to hold him.

Yankees have second and third and one man out.

Here's Alex Verdugo.

Verdugo. Grounds with the first.

Freeman's got it. Takes it to the bag. They do get Volpe home. That's a run

absolutely had to have.

They played really well. I mean, they had massive hits, obviously, but we have

that one -day mentality.

Just win today.

We have the pitching. We have the bullpen. We have the offense.

We go to the bottom of the third. It's the Dodgers, two of the Yankees, one

in game four.

Now Aaron Judge to the plate.

Look out.

Did it hit him?

I think it did.

I got you there. Yeah, I got him.

It hit him.

I think this guy gets him pretty good. That is not where you want to get hit.

Here's Jazz Chisholm Jr.

Chisholm launches the ball to right center field.

That's his going back. It's over his head.

He plays the carom perfectly and somehow holds Chisholm to a single.

Judge goes first to third in the 87th corner.

The Yankees' third season on thin ice.

And here is Giancarlo.

Come on, Stan.

Come on. Hit the ball. Hit the ball.

Stan has a similar look to the pitch that Judge had up and in on him.

And they're saying he got hit.

Hey, did he swing?

Yes, he did.

You know, that's a swing.

He said you swung.

I know, I know.

You know what? Stay in the game because you can't argue that. So he's already

said you swung.

It's not going to change anything.

Fucking hell.

They're going to say he swung.

If you offer at a pitch and it hits you, it's a strike.

We're not taking that shit in our house.

Yeah, give it right back to him.

off pitch.

Down and away. Ball four.

Bases loaded.

And it's a big spot.

The Dodgers clinging to a 2 -1 lead.

Now here's Anthony Volpe, the young shortstop.

Doesn't it seem like it continues to fall on Anthony Volpe?

Born and raised in Manhattan and then New Jersey from a long line of Yankees

fans. New York kid.

Bases loaded. Two out.

The Yankees are more than just a team or an organization.

Since the second grade, like, what do you want to be when you grow up?

Shortstop for the Yankees.

When my grandfather was a baby, my great -grandfather, he went and fought in

World War II.

Then when he came back, he didn't know him, didn't recognize him.

The way he got to know my great -grandfather, he sat on his lap every

night and they listened to the Yankees.

They think this guy is as good a prospect as they've had since Derek

Anthony, what was it like to officially become a member of the New York Yankees?

For real, for the same year.

I haven't had any goosebumps the whole day.

It's a new country.

Welcome to New York.

I ain't got the bases loaded in two hours.

Creeps the ball.

Deep left field.

That ball is high. It is far.

Oh, that's good.

And

Yankee

Stadium explodes in 5 -2 New York.

I didn't know if it was out, but I knew I barreled it good. And then right when

I realized it was over the fence, I blacked out. It was amazing.

You finally got to see the top blow off Yankee Stadium in a World Series game.

The energy, you know, the noise, the excitement.

A jolt through the stadium and through this series.

Here we go to the bottom of the sixth.

Austin Wells.

Wells takes it.

Sends it up.

It's gone.

Sleeping Giant has awoken.

Two were aboard and one out for.

Alex Verdugo.

Verdugo on the ground to second. Coming home is lost.

Not in time.

Players and the fans were just feeding off each other, and they just kept

building on it and building on it in that game. They just kept scoring more

more and more and more and more.

7 -4 New York, but now it's Gleyber Torres.

That's going back. That ball is gone.

Gleyber Torres, a three -run homer over the wall.

And the Yankees have broken it open.

It's 10 -4 here in the Bronx.

You got the bleacher creatures doing their thing, screaming.

You got beer flying everywhere.

We didn't want to go home. We wanted to force a game seven, but to force a game

seven, you had to win game four.

Judge hooks the line, drives to left field, and that's in for a hit.

Just a contagious feeling when you have everybody.

The one through nine on that line, that ball, laser locked in like that.

It's 11 runs for the Yanks.

I started to see Judge come to life. It just seemed like he was a little bit

more patient, seeing the ball a little bit longer, and that's something that

started to scare me.

To be able to get not only a big pick and an RBI for Aaron Judge, this is

Takes a lot of weight off his shoulders.

And we go to the ninth inning. The Yankees have a very safe 11 -4 lead.

Dodgers down to their last strike in game four.

Into center field.

Judge comes on. He's got it.

Ball game over.

Yankees win.

The Yankees win.

We're not dead yet.

We're not dead yet.

There is fear being thrown around Yankee Stadium in celebration.

The Bombers will stave off elimination for at least one more night.

We know what's at stake.

We're playing for our lives.

Just because our backs are against the wall hasn't changed that mindset,

especially with this group who's been through a lot. We've got to focus on

winning another game. That's it.

First three games Dodgers riding high for the Yankees came back with a jab and

all of a sudden You kind of feel like that mo has shifted towards the Yankees.

You left the door open in truly great teams. When you give them an inch, they

take a mile.

That door slithered open. The Yankees have a chance to kick it down.

I think we're, like, the first team with a 3 -0 lead to not win in Game 4 in

life since, like, 1973 or something like that.

So, oh, my God, I wish we were on the other side of that, but we still have

three more chances to get one more win, so.

What happens when you lose?

Anything can happen, but... What?

Question about Aaron Judge.

Yeah.

Swing decisions and the chase and stuff like that seems like it's improved over

the past maybe two games. Yeah, I thought he had good at -bats last night.

Hopefully that carries into today.

With Aaron, it's always one pitch away from getting as

hot as anyone's ever seen.

In game four, he started to come to life.

So I wanted to get this series over before he got hot.

Let's go.

Mike's starting to get a little nervous for the first time.

Why did it? I think it's because today is going to be a game.

Yankee Stadium lights up one final time this year. It's game five of the World

Series. The Yankees have to win to continue their season.

Well, for the Dodgers, still right in front of them, one win from an eighth

World Championship.

I feel like we're really confident in what we knew we can do if we executed

getting it back to L .A. That was our goal.

And it's a matchup of these team's aces, Garrett Cole for the Yankees and Jack

Flaherty for the Dodgers in a Game 1 rematch.

We expect Ohtani to be aggressive here tonight as he tries to make his mark on

this World Series.

Garrett Cole into his lineup, the first pitch of Game 5.

Ohtani swings and lists it high in the air.

Shallow right center field.

Aaron Judge calling for it and catches it. One pitch, one out for Cole.

Here in the first.

Now Mookie Betts.

Picked up by Rizzo. He'll step on the dag on his own.

Now, the guy who has been the toughest pass.

For the Yankees so far in this World Series, Freddie Freeman.

You talk about sending a message that's done just that. Two run home runs in the

first inning of both games here. Yeah, he has been locked in. He'll be wanting

to be aggressive on the first pitch. He usually is.

Swing and a high fly ball left field.

Playable Verdugo backing up under it. And he makes the catch.

And Derek Bowe gets a 1 -2 -3.

Now it's Jack Flaherty's turn.

I felt so ready to go for game five.

Body felt good.

Felt like, you know, the ball was coming out good and everything and felt in a

really good place that day.

Juan Soto comes to the plate.

Talk about Cole setting his own. Flaherty's got to set one of his own.

For Jack Flaherty, all he has to do is match.

Match zero for zero.

Soto, the first base runner of the night.

And Aaron Judge coming to the plate.

And listen to the crowd greeting Judge as the big slunger steps in on the right

side.

Yeah, the fans bring a different level to it. You know, they bring that edge

where... You know, you can't fool them. You can't trick them. And they want to

see winners. But these fans are faithful. You know, they appreciate the

work. And, you know, they're cheering us on from the very first pitch to the

last out.

First pitch, I would imagine, will tell you a lot about Aaron Judge and tonight.

It is a judging blast into the right center field field.

And the Yankees take an immediate 2 -0 lead in this must -game.

The fans and the team have been waiting for this great player to be unleashed.

I think he's back.

I think we all blacked out, to be honest, when that happened.

That was probably the most excited I'd been on the baseball field, for sure.

Yankees 2, Dodgers nothing.

All rise.

Here comes the judge.

Just trying to give us an early lead there, especially when you've got

Cole in the mound and you give that guy a couple runs, good things are going to

happen. It's that thing nine miles in the air.

I'd say he's figured it out.

Well, right now, there's a lot of people in the other clubhouse putting together

a different game plan if they have to face him in game six because he's a

different player.

Wanted to get through that first inning 0 -0.

I miss.

He puts a good swing on it. It's just like, you know, shit.

So it's like, okay, you got to move to the next center.

Now Jazz Chisholm.

All right, they got it right.

That's going back, and it's up.

That is far. That is gone.

Jazz Chisholm homers the deep right field.

Oh, that jazz.

That's it back in the post. Still in charge.

And jazz.

Now they're really feeling it. They're like, we got all the momentum coming

game four.

And then, you know, I give up three runs like that on two homers, which the

homers are huge momentum shifters for a crowd and a team, especially there.

Boy, what a beginning.

You sure the game's not over? We really have to play eight already?

Enfield pulls in in the second inning as Alex Verdugo comes up. Runner at third,

one out.

Flaherty could really use a strikeout.

That's a base hit.

Alex Verdugo drives in Anthony Holpe, and it's four to nothing.

It definitely felt like we started getting some momentum, having better at

-bats, driving the ball a little bit better, too, and we're where we wanted

be.

This guy doesn't have it tonight.

And Dave Roberts did not stay on this train any longer. He's going to have to

change.

As a manager, I'm playing chess, and you've got to figure how much leash

going to give the starter.

It was early.

But I just felt like it just wasn't his day, and we've got to minimize damage

and try to keep those guys right there to give us a chance later on.

Night is over for Jack Clarity.

An inning and a third, and he's done here at game five.

Here we go to the bottom of the third, right -hander Ryan Grazier for Los

Angeles.

And here's Stanton.

Big G's something special. He's always intense.

He has this look in his face when he steps in the box.

You just see this look in his eye where he just knows exactly what he's hunting.

When you see a guy like that who's so locked in and so focused, it's like,

stay out of his way.

Let him go eat and do his thing.

Swings and drills one at eat right.

There's another.

Giancarlo Stanton.

I feel

like we're feeding off the

energy of the fan and the atmosphere in the stadium and really doing damage and

attacking and kind of making them feel it.

My big question, where did the Dodgers go?

They better find themselves quick.

We felt good on game four. We're up now on game five. Like, let's go, boys.

Now there's some momentum going. Now there's some more belief.

You start to feel like there's some momentum shift. So your mind starts to

about, like, what does game six look like?

We were already thinking about Yoshinobu trying to get a flight back to L .A.

earlier to get some rest for a game six, and then thinking about who's

potentially available to pitch because those guys had all the momentum.

The Yankees with a 5 -0 lead as we play here in the top of the fourth.

So here comes the man of the moment in Los Angeles, Freddie Freeman.

You're just like, this game's kind of, this isn't what we envisioned at the

start of this game. And the fans were into it again. Like, they were going

And, okay, like, come on, just get one. Like, chip away.

Launches this ball up center field.

Judge on the run.

He's still going. He's at the wall, and he's got it.

Aaron Judge putting his stamp on game five.

You see that big man going after that ball. It was like, wow.

That was an amazing catch.

In 2004.

I was part of a team where we came back from a 3 -0 deficit in a seven -game

series. Then it started a little bit bleeding in my head like, I don't want

be on the other side of this. I can start to feel that sense bleeding into

psyche a little bit.

Dodgers still looking for their first hit against Cole.

Dodgers desperately need something to feel good about.

They didn't play well last night at all, and up to this point, they haven't

played particularly well either.

Here is Kiki Hernandez.

Swing and a line drive and a base hit out into right center field.

Kiki Hernandez aboard, and for the Dodgers, their first hit of the night.

That hit was huge.

Kiki, he just lives for the postseason.

He just...

has a way like I've never seen to just lock in in the biggest of moments.

And here's Tommy Edmund.

Another 0 -2, Tommy Edmund to center field.

Initially off the bat, I was like, oh, that's got a chance to fall.

And I see Judge kind of camped under it, and I was like, oh, dang, that's a

bummer.

He dropped the ball.

Well, he planks it in center. He planks it.

Racing for second is Hernandez, and he flies in safely.

I think it happens to every outfielder.

Easy land drive, and you might take your eye out of the wall for, like, a

second, and you move the glove, and he's going to drop the ball.

By the way, that's his first error of the season.

Wow.

And now the Dodgers in business. Chew on, nobody out.

I was like, oh, my gosh. Like, that's our window. Like, we got a chance to

something out of this inning.

A little crack in the door here. Down 5 -0. But a couple runners aboard. And

Will Smith, who went deep in yesterday's game, at the plate.

Come on, Cole. Get out of there.

There's no game in the World Series. He wanted to fold over and let them win

because they jumped out to the lead Anything can happen

Well be to his right going for 30 game Hernandez the ball

skips away from everybody's safe And the bases will be

loaded It was gonna be a

tough play but One the Yankees should make.

TK just does a great job of bending out, getting in Jazz's way, and then causing

a bad throw.

That's something that doesn't show up in the box for him, but that's something

that was a big game -changing play.

TK made a good play getting in my throwing lane, and I just made a bad

It's something I got to live with.

Well, this has been one of the big differentiators throughout this series,

Yankees' defense.

Sloppy. It's the nine -hitter, Gavin Lux.

All right, let's do it, let's go.

Come on, Cole, be the ace you are.

Cole hits by it.

Got him, 99 again, tailing away for the first down of the fifth.

Nothing has changed demeanor -wise from Garrett Cole.

Even the errors didn't make him twitch.

But Cole not out of the woods yet. Here comes Shohei Ohtani.

The fastball ties him up, and it's 1 -2.

Garrett, even after the errors and everything that happened, he had the

confidence in his ability to get outs and compete.

The one -two.

Swing and a miss. He's stuck him out.

Cole frames Ohtani and there's two away.

Superstar against superstar on the biggest stage and Garrett Cole wins it

-to -head.

I was like, he's got to find his way to get out of this inning.

And now it's bookie bet.

and a little roll in the furnace. Rizzo is there. He goes to under him, but

nobody covers, and everybody's safe.

Nobody was covering the bag.

Nobody covered it.

And that is how the Dodgers break through.

Atrocious defense from the Yankees leading directly to a Dodger run in the

fifth.

It was crazy just the first inning. Mookie had hit almost the exact same

that Rizzo had fielded and just made the out himself.

So I think when Cole saw Mookie hit that ball, he kind of just had deja vu and

was like, okay, that's the same ball Rizzo's going to get to first.

As a first baseman, the ones that are spinning, those are probably the hardest

plays. So I just played the hop conservatively, and I looked up to flip

Garrett, and there was just a miscommunication on both of our parts.

That's basically three errors in the same inning.

The fundamentals on this team are just so bad. That's terrible.

Hey, we'll take this.

Hey, Freddie's about to faint right now.

Freddie's about to hit it out. Time to game us.

Time to game us.

And look who's coming up. Freddie Frieden.

This is a massive opportunity that has given us about five outs in this inning.

Mookie. And when he hits the ball and they didn't cover first and we got a

we had two outs. I was like, got to get a hit.

So now Freddie's the play.

Two outs in the fifth.

They're still loaded.

I wasn't thinking grand slam or anything. I was just like, keep this

moving. Let's keep it going.

Advantage of the bad defense from New York, and this game has changed in the

blink of an eye.

Ready!

Ready! Let it go!

God damn it!

Get it out!

Mistakes stacking up and letting a team like the Dodgers right back in the game.

At the corners for Teoscar Hernandez.

You know, when you had a feeling that everything's going to go your way,

we had that in that game.

In the air to left center field. Judge on the run. Dead sprint now. And it's

over.

Fucking believable.

The Yankees crack the door open with a poor defense, and the Dodgers kick it

down.

A five -run fifth inning and a tie game in game five.

That is disgusting.

It's a no -hitter.

They're up five to fifth, and we've got a tie ball game.

If they lose this game, it's their own fault.

Boy, is it ever.

This team is just too good to give an inch, and they've given a mile.

38 -10 to the inning from Cole.

I feel like we come to the dugout and we're like, wow, this is a little hard

comprehend, but, I mean, at the same time, you know, we're still in the

ballgame.

Now to the bottom of the six, the new pitcher is Broussard Gratterall.

Probably a throwing right -hander.

Gratterall, he's typically an efficient pitcher.

I'm counting out and trying to figure out how I keep this game as close as

possible. Guy they call Bazooka, Broussard Gratterall.

Can have his work cut out for him here. Soto, Judge, and Chisholm coming up.

Three and two, here we go. Nobody on, nobody out.

Ball four, and a go -ahead run is the board.

Well, here comes Aaron Judd.

Fives of fives and low blows in this game for him and for the Yankees.

The last inning, it was tough to swallow, but definitely didn't feel like

were out of it.

We always knew we were one swing away.

That's always our mentality.

Three and two, the bench.

All the ball at the outside corner, an edgy pitch, and it goes New York's way.

Rattlesnake can't believe it, and now the first two have walked.

Let's go, Yankees!

Let's go, Yankees!

First and second known out, and here is Chisholm.

Lux will go to second for one. That's all they'll get with the speed of

Chisholm. And the Yankees have a corner to point away.

And Giancarlo Stanton is going to get a chance to give the Yankees the lead.

The pin.

Swung on and hit on the air to left center.

Back post to Oscar.

And... He makes the catch.

Nagging from third and coming in to score is Soto.

Nagging to second is Fism. And he's in.

And it's 6 -5 Yankees on a deep sack fly by Giancarlo Stanton.

We got punch.

We responded.

It's just about coming in and not letting it affect you. You have to stay

focused on the next pitch.

Stanton just missed.

From hitting a three -run home run.

That point in time, I was thinking, was I going to be all in or not?

Because, you know, we were stretched pretty thin with our staff.

But I just thought our guys did enough to earn the right for me to exhaust

option to play to win that game that night and not look towards a potential

game six.

Dave Roberts looks like going to make a change here.

Blake Trinan's ready to come in as early as he's been deployed in this

postseason.

We couldn't give up any more runs, so I went to Trinan to stop that momentum.

It was earlier than I'd been called in, so that aspect caught me off guard a

little bit, but I was like, okay, I've got to go at least one plus.

Trinan's been their top guy in this postseason.

Is Blake Trinan running out of gas, though? He's given up a run in three

consecutive outings.

Trinan, fired.

Swing and a ground ball, right side, luck.

Doubles it up, throw to first in time.

And that ends the sixth inning. So Trinan comes out of the bullpen, strands

pair, but the Yankees score one and take the lead back.

Six -five, Yankees on top. We go to the eighth.

Tommy Canely will take over.

And Canely to face Quique Hernandez.

Rips a line drive, base hit to left field.

He started the rally in the 5 -1 fifth. He starts this eighth with a base hit.

The Dodgers have the tying run on base.

That's what I said. Get to the bullpen. We got this game.

We got this game.

Now here's Tommy Edmond against Canely, and he's batting from the right side.

Runs in that frame. Tommy Edmond broke the back ground ball. He dives, grabs

but everybody's safe.

Hope he's able to smother it, but that didn't mean much. Hernandez to second,

and Edmond on a broken bat roller has an infield hit.

Smith all for three.

Inside, ball four, a four -pitch walk.

Load them up to Gavin Lux.

Jesus Christ, it's the bottom of the lineup.

And here's Aaron Boone, and he's not going to wait any longer. He's going to

to his number one guy in the bullpen.

Weaver, for the first time in his career, is going to pitch three

days.

And he'll come into a bases -loaded situation in a one -run game.

There's not going to be any nails left to bite in the Bronx by the end of this

one.

The Dodgers have Gavin Lux at the plate. Base is loaded. No out.

Go strike.

Get in there and go strike.

Here's the pitch.

Aaron Judge drifts over to his right. Kike Hernandez tagging from third.

Sacrifice by Gavin Lux. And we're tied once again.

It's six all.

Tommy Edmond able to tag up from second and wind up at third base.

Mookie Betts digs in.

Oh my gosh, my heart is beating fast.

Anything, please honey, anything.

Please, please, please, please.

Lever sets, kicks and fires.

Judge backs up. Edmund tagging from third.

Here he comes.

Another sacrifice fly, and the Dodgers have the lead in game five.

So much excitement, you know, touching home plate. All right, we got the lead.

From down five to nothing to a head 76 in the most preposterous way.

Bottom of the eighth, the Dodgers now lead the Yankees 7 -6.

But New York has exactly the part of the order due off that they want.

I looked at Doc and I was like, hey, I'll keep going. And he was like, all

right. My calf had, like, cramped up a little bit on me that previous inning.

And I have our trainer, Greg.

I was like, Greg, you just got to loosen me up. It's cramping. And I'm just

prepping myself. Like, Lord, we scratched all the way back. Let me put

another zero for these guys.

One gone in the eighth, and Aaron Judge.

This crowd's so nervous.

You're really silent in here.

Judd's trying to bring him to life.

Captain at the plate.

One. Face it. Over third. Down the left field line.

Extra bases for Judd.

He's got a double. Tie and run in scoring position in the eighth.

They hit a double down the line, and I'm thinking.

You need to figure this out.

How much more does Trinan have left?

Trinan has already pitched an inning and a third.

3 -1.

Takes ball four.

The go -ahead run is done.

And Giancarlo Stanton's coming up.

So Doc's walking out, gives me the hands, kind of like pumping down, like

down, like we're going to talk.

I wanted to slow the game down, hit pause, and just check in on Blake.

And he comes out, and he's like, how are you feeling? I was like, I feel fine,

Doc. And he's like, can you give me one more out? And I was like, absolutely.

Like, I want this guy.

Wanted to look him in the eye, put my hands on him, see how he felt.

And he's like, okay, this is your last guy.

And I was like, all right.

How about this call from Dave Roberts to lead Blake Trinan in the game?

He is approaching 40 pitches.

The Yankees have the tying run on second, the go -ahead run on first, one

the eighth inning, and the Yankees' most clutch postseason hitter at the plate,

Giancarlo Stanton.

First pitch.

Lifted down the right field line.

He's under it.

He's got it.

Stands the second out.

Doc told me that if I looked in the dugout, he was pulling me.

I'm looking at Blake. Blake doesn't look at me.

You can't take me out after just one pitch. Like, there's no way. You got to

leave me in for one more day.

I'm on the top step, watching his demeanor, knowing what I told him. But

one pitch.

Stuff was still good. I look at Freddie in the distance.

And I'm just staring at Doc. Doc looks at me and I said, mm -mm. I just shook

head and I was like, let's die with Blake on this mound. We have to.

Freddie's been in this game for a long time.

I trust his feel, his heartbeat, his gut, all that stuff.

I trusted in that particular moment because I was wavering.

And I just decided to stand down.

And I said, this is his guy.

Well, here's Rizzo with runners at first and second two out.

Late trotting, giving it all he's got.

He's on fumes right now.

The Dodgers are three outs away from the World Championship.

It was probably the most special moment of my career to have gone two and a

third and hopefully have bought ourselves a clean inning for whoever was

to come in.

I don't know who Dave Roberts is going to go to next. Man, he's running out of

arms quick.

And look who is warming up in the pen.

Walker Buehler now throwing.

We're getting on the bus to go to the stadium, and Walker sits down behind me.

He's like, hey, I feel good. It's my bullpen day.

I'm good to pitch if you need me.

And I was like, look, Walker, we are in a really good place.

He's like, all right, if things get wonky, I'll be ready. I'm like, okay.

So I let Doc and everybody know.

And I tell them to text Walker back, no thank you, because he was our game seven

starter. He had just pitched two days ago.

So then we're going through this game.

And the sixth inning rolls around. So Walker, being a smart player, is looking

at who's available to him. He goes to me. I'll be in the bullpen if you need

I don't think anyone really thought I had a chance to get in that game, and I

messed around and said, I just came out here to hang out with you guys.

But as that game keeps getting a little weirder and weirder, and you're kind of

looking around doing the math in terms of who's left and who is tired and who's

this and who's that by the eighth inning.

trying in a Herculean spot in terms of going two and a third, and there was no

one else left.

And it's like, all right, I think I've got the ninth inning.

We have the lead, so I'm just thinking we have to just go for it right now. And

if something happens and they tie it up, I'll be prepared for the fallout for a

potential game seven walk that would certainly be spent for the series.

When you're exhausting everything and you're putting everything out there,

no margin for error, that's scary.

It comes down to this in game five.

Bottom of the ninth, Yankee State with Dodgers seven, the Yankees fifth.

L .A. three outs from a world title.

When Walker came in, I was like, wait a second, you're supposed to be starting.

Something if we need, like, this is, oh man, we're going for it.

The Dodgers are turning to Walker Bueller.

Out of the bullpen for the first time since the end of June in 2018.

And it comes in a potential World Series clincher.

I felt so weightless and I think that adrenaline and kind of the feeling of

moment. You're just trying to get your warm -up pitches going and never really

done it before.

So we'll see what happens.

Anthony Volpe, Austin Wells, Alex Verdugo trying to extend the Yankees

First pitch from Dillon.

Ten ball, no shot. That's the one thing to watch for, okay?

Adrenaline will be fine with the miles per hour, but the command.

Really have the command.

So nervous.

It's just only one run in Yankee Stadium.

Anything can happen. You're facing the Yankees.

The 2 -2.

Breaking pitch. Ground to the third.

Macy's got it.

One gone in the ninth.

So now it's Austin Wells.

One out.

Nobody on.

Here's the 2 -2.

Slow 3 -2.

This count is full.

That's two.

The Dodgers are one out of the way.

And it's up to the former Dodger, Alex Verdugo, to try and keep things alive

the Yankees.

And misses downstairs.

Top of the order, Glaber Torres.

And Verdugo can read.

Swing and a miss. One ball, one strut.

The Dodgers a strike away.

game over. World Series over.

Obviously, this is a very difficult moment for us to get to this point.

You know, as I said to the guys, it stings now, but this is going to sting

forever.

You know, I'm 51.

You know, I poured my life into chasing that, and when you get that close, you

know, it's... I'm heartbroken. I'm heartbroken.

I'm heartbroken for those guys that pour so much into this.

The ending is cruel.

To make errors, you know, and we were capitalizing on our mistakes.

That's how you win baseball games, capitalizing on the other team's

You know, we came up short, and that's just, it's brutal.

What do you take away from your first World Series?

A lot of different things, to be honest.

Getting a chance to see Yankee Stadium rocking and rolling like that the past

couple nights was pretty special.

You battle through so much throughout the season. All for it to come to these

final games like this.

I think falling short in the World Series will stick with me until I die,

probably.

Thank you so much. I am so proud of you.

my pleasure and honor to present this trophy to the president of the Dodgers.

Fantastic.

And this is the most valuable player, Warp.

Freddie Freeman, it's all yours.

What a hell of a way to go out, boy.

First off, I want to thank you guys so much for believing in each other. The

sacrifice and the commitment that each one of you guys made for yourselves, for

your families.

Baseball is about teammates and memories.

This memory will live forever.

Congratulations!

There's not a better feeling in sports than winning a championship, and you're

together forever. We're bonded as that group of guys. We'll be coming back for

reunions every 10 years, and you'll get to see those guys forever and know that

you guys accomplished something that is so hard to do and that took so much

time. That's why it's so special to win championships.