Volpe slam sparks comeback after Freeman homer, Yanks beat Dodgers 11-4 to force World Series Game 5

NEW YORK (AP) — Anthony Volpe’s third-inning expansive slam overcame Freddie Freeman’s record-setting location run, and nan New York Yankees avoided a World Series expanse pinch an 11-4 triumph complete nan Los Angeles Dodgers connected Tuesday nighttime that forced a Game 5.

Freeman homered for his sixth consecutive Series game, hitting a two-run thrust successful nan first inning for nan 2nd consecutive nighttime and again stunning nan Yankee Stadium crowd.

Seeking to go nan first squad to flooded a 3-0 Series deficit, New York surged up 5-2 connected Alex Verdugo’s RBI grounder successful nan 2nd and Volpe’s thrust against Daniel Hudson successful nan third. Volpe turned connected a first-pitch slider astatine nan knees and drove it into nan left-field seats.

“I was hustling. I didn’t cognize I sewage it,” Volpe said. “And past I blacked out.”

Volpe scored New York’s first tally erstwhile he walked aft falling down 0-2 successful nan 2nd inning and came location contempt an uncharacteristic baserunning blunder that could person costs nan Yankees a run. He besides doubled and stole 2 bases.

“Amazing. Volpe, he did it each tonight,” Gleyber Torres said.

Austin Wells and Torres added homers for nan Yankees, who collapsed unfastened nan crippled pinch a five-run eighth. New York had scored conscionable 7 runs successful nan first 3 games.

“Good nighttime for america and we get different opportunity tomorrow,” Yankees head Aaron Boone said.

Los Angeles closed wrong 6-4 successful a two-run 5th that included Will Smith’s homer disconnected starter Luis Gil and an RBI grounder by Freeman. Despite a sprained correct ankle, Freeman hit a relay to debar an inning-ending double play connected what primitively was ruled an retired but was reversed successful a video review.

Wells deed a second-deck homer successful nan sixth against Landon Knack, and Verdugo added different run-scoring grounder successful nan eighth up of Torres’ three-run homer disconnected Brent Honeywell.

Tim Hill, winning pitcher Clay Holmes, Mark Leiter Jr., Luke Weaver and Tim Mayza strung together 5 innings of one-hit alleviation pinch 7 strikeouts, and nan Yankees avoided what would person been their first losing Series expanse since 1976.

Game 5 is Wednesday night, pinch nan Yankees ace Gerrit Cole and nan Dodgers’ Jack Flaherty gathering successful a rematch of Game 1.

“Gerrit’s nan champion pitcher successful nan game. We really judge successful him,” Torres said. “But we person to do nan occupation for illustration we did coming truthful we don’t person to put each nan unit connected him.”

New York’s Aaron Judge drove successful his first tally of nan Series pinch an RBI azygous successful nan eighth and is 2 for 15 successful nan 4 games. Dodgers sensation Shohei Ohtani besides is 2 for 15 aft going 1 for 4 pinch a single, his first deed since partially separating his near shoulder successful Game 2.

Twenty-one of nan erstwhile 24 teams to return 3-0 Series leads went connected to sweeps, each but nan 1910 Philadelphia Athletics against nan Chicago Cubs, nan 1937 Yankees against nan New York Giants and nan 1970 Baltimore Orioles against nan Cincinnati Reds. All 3 of those Series ended successful 5 games.

The 2004 Boston Red Sox, sparked by a stolen guidelines from existent Dodgers head Dave Roberts, are nan only squad to flooded a 3-0 shortage successful immoderate round, beating nan Yankees successful nan AL Championship Series.

New York stopped a seven-game Series losing streak against nan Dodgers making love to 1981. The Yankees sewage their first 7 RBIs from nan bottommost 3 hitters successful their batting order, Volpe, Wells and Verdugo, who had entered 4 for 32 pinch 3 RBIs successful nan Series.

“I don’t deliberation anyone expected those guys to laic down. We had immoderate at-bats that I thought could person been better, but we knew it was a bullpen game,” Roberts said. “As acold arsenic outcomes, to person six guys successful your ’pen that are emotion good, rested, I consciousness bully astir that.”

Freeman homered erstwhile he deposited a slider from Gil into nan right-field short structure pursuing Mookie Betts’ one-out double. He became nan first subordinate to homer successful nan first 4 games of a World Series and his streak of agelong balls successful six consecutive games is 1 much than Houston’s George Springer 2017 and ’19.

Freeman’s walk-off expansive slam pinch 2 outs successful nan 10th inning turned astir nan opener, giving nan Dodgers a 6-3 win. The Yankees had not led since then.

Volpe walked successful nan 2nd against rookie Ben Casparias, reached 3rd connected Wells’ double disconnected nan center-field wall and scored connected Verdugo’s groundout.

Losing pitcher Hudson loaded nan bases successful nan 3rd erstwhile he Judge pinch a transportation pinch 1 out, Jazz Chisholm Jr. singled disconnected nan right-field wall and Giancarlo Stanton walked. Anthony Rizzo popped retired and Volpe deed nan grounds sixth slam of nan postseason.

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Cole allowed 1 tally complete six-plus innings successful nan opener -- Kiké Hernández tripled successful nan 5th arsenic correct fielder Juan Soto took a mediocre route, past scored connected Smith’s sacrifice fly. Flaherty gave up 2 runs successful 5 1/3 innings, a two-run homer by Stanton.

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