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HITTING A HOME RUN: LEHMAN COLLEGE STUDENTS SCORE BIG AT YANKEE STADIUM First Sport Management Mentoring Program Cohort Celebrates On and Off The Field
The Bronx, NY—Thirteen Lehman College students and alumni who participated in the Yankees-CUNY Sport Management Mentoring Program celebrated their hard work and achievements with a special certificate ceremony held at Yankee Stadium on September 25.
The five-week virtual series consisted of informative sessions with members of the Yankees’ front office team.
During the ceremony, students from Lehman’s School of Professional and Continuing Studies received their certificate and had a memorable photo opportunity on the field alongside Fernando Delgado, Lehman College President; Andrea Huda, Small Business Internship Program Manager, School of Continuing and Professional Studies; Jorge Silva Puras, Provost and Senior Vice President, Academic Affairs and Student Success; and Jane Mackillop, Dean, School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
To wrap up the series, the cohort was invited to view the game from the Judge’s Chambers, a specially designated area of the ballpark named for Yankees’ All-Star Aaron Judge.
Two students shared their thoughts on the experience:
“One thing Kenny [Leandry, Director of Corporate and Community Relations, New York Yankees] said that stood out to me was never try to be the next one to do it. Be the first to do it your way. I realized it’s not what you study, it’s what you bring to the table,” said Glorimar Camacho, a psychology major at Lehman College.
Malique Russell, a rising junior majoring in Accounting said, “All the speakers we got the opportunity to hear from were very personable, it made me relate to them as people, not just professionals. It is definitely an experience I can grow from.”
This ceremony follows the Yankees’ announcement of the “Armando Talavera Summer Internship,” honoring the former Spanish-language broadcaster who passed away in May 2024. Starting next summer, a Lehman College student aspiring to a career in sports media, broadcasting, or journalism will have the opportunity to intern with the Yankees.
Since 2021, the Yankees-CUNY Partnership Program has exposed CUNY students and alumni to career paths, employment, and business opportunities throughout the Yankees organization.
Additional photos from the day can be accessed here. Photo credit: Lehman College.
About Lehman College
A perennial national leader in promoting social mobility, Lehman College of The City University of New York serves as an intellectual, economic, and cultural center for the Bronx, New York City, and beyond. The college – which sits on a tree-lined 37-acre campus – supports more than 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students, another 14,000 students in continuing and professional programs, and over 90,000 alumni. As a federally designated Hispanic-Serving Institution in the Bronx, Lehman College educates a diverse population of students. The college offers bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees as well as certificate programs in the liberal arts, sciences, and professions.
Mets in playoffs after rallying vs. Braves in instant classic
In Game 1 of Monday’s doubleheader in Atlanta, the Mets rallied past the Braves multiple times to clinch an NL Wild Card berth, with Francisco Lindor’s two-run homer in the ninth capping the 8-7 comeback win.
There’s still plenty to play for in Game 2, with Atlanta needing a victory to clinch a spot as well. Should the Braves get swept by the Mets in the twin bill, the D-backs will grab the final playoff spot.
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Stadium Update: Introducing City Square!
Today, New York City FC is excited to introduce to you City Square, a truly unique space in our stadium. Click here to see the new renderings!
City Square will be a flexible area both on matchdays and non-matchdays alike, located at street level at the south end of the stadium. On a matchday, fans with a ticket to the match will be able to access the area right as they enter our stadium through the iconic Cube entrance. On non-matchdays, the area will be open to the public and accessible via garage doors that open out onto the sidewalk.
Among its many functions, City Square will be home to the “Five Boroughs Food Hall.” We are passionate about and committed to bringing the diverse flavors of Queens – and all of New York City – to City Square, and we look forward to working with some of the best local vendors and suppliers from around the five boroughs as we get further along in the process to opening our stadium.
Our plan is for City Square to be a multi-functional space for both our fans and the local community. In addition to its matchday functions, City Square can hold events such as farmers’ markets and food festivals, community events, and even live music performances!
Be part of this exciting new era in NYC and Club history. Place your deposit now for a spot in the new stadium, for as low as $25.
JetBlue Soars into New Partnership with UBS Arena & the New York Islanders
of UBS Arena and the New York Islanders
and a ‘Light Up Long Island’ Activation
- John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) Terminal 5 Takeover – Starting at 11 a.m., New York Islanders Legend and four-time Stanley Cup Champion Butch Goring along with the Islanders mascots Sparky and Nyles and the New York Islanders Hype Team will bring the energy of Islanders games and events at UBS Arena to JetBlue’s Terminal 5. Music, giveaways and special surprises are in store for JetBlue customers during their stopover at JFK on September 4.
- Light Up Long Island – At 7 p.m. EST on September 4, the UBS Arena lanterns and the Nassau County Executive & Legislative Building’s Dome will light up blue to welcome JetBlue to the New York Islanders’ home on Long Island.
Photo Credit: Dennis DaSilva/New York Islanders
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Front Office Sports Announces Inaugural Most Sustainable List
leveraging their reach, influence, and resources to safeguard the planet
- GOAL (Green Operations & Advanced Leadership) (Other)
- UBS Arena (Venue)
- World Surf League (League)
- WM (Brand)
- Moda Center (Venue)
- Spectrum Center (Venue)
- Gillette Stadium (Venue)
- Liverpool FC (Team)
- SailGP (League)
- NC State Athletics (Team)
New Installment of New York State Parks’ Interactive Digital Timeline Explores the Great Depression and Civilian Conservation Corps Era
Educational Tool Part of Multi-Faceted, Yearlong Centennial Celebration
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation today announced the release of the third installment of the interactive, online timeline ‘Blazing a Trail: A History of New York State Parks and Historic Sites’ in celebration of New York State Parks’ Centennial. This project employs photographs, illustrations, paintings, documents, archival footage, maps and narrative to tell the story of the development of the New York State Parks system. The newest installment, “Depression and A New Deal,” is available here, along with previously released eras.
In the first two eras, users learned about the drive to conserve natural spaces during the rapid development of the late 1800s and the shift in focus from preservation to recreation. They met leaders who were instrumental in creating the system of parks and historic sites we know today and guiding its development. The third era, split in two parts, will take users into the Great Depression and New Deal years, exploring how this challenging time for the park system became a watershed moment with the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). More than 220,000 CCC members built key park infrastructure from bridges to cabins that is still in use today. At New York State Parks, an all-Black unit with Black leadership was deployed at Newtown Battlefield State Park, and a lesser-known women’s version, Camp Tera, was piloted at Bear Mountain State Park.
This era’s initial section explores the period between 1930 and 1945. The second section will cover 1940 to 1945 and will explore the effect of World War II on the park system. Additional eras launching throughout the year will cover the development of the system under the post-World War II Rockefeller administration, the creation of the modern Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP), efforts to expand the agency’s diverse portfolio of parks, and more. Future eras include 1945-1959, 1960-1971, 1972-1999, 2000-Today, and Tomorrow and Beyond. Each era includes the individual histories of the parks and sites added in the timeframe.
Commissioner Pro Tempore of the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Randy Simons said, “An anniversary such as the Centennial is a time to recognize and appreciate our whole history, celebrate our people today and plan for the next 100 years. Like so many, the Great Depression was a moment of great adversity our young park system. It’s inspiring to learn how such difficult times produced such unity and determination, and sowed the seeds for the tremendous social change that was to come. All year long, we’ve been inviting each and every New Yorker to share their parks stories. We’re pleased to be sharing our own through this project.”
‘Blazing A Trail’ is one of several initiatives celebrating the Parks Centennial. Other initiatives include an exhibit in the New York State Capitol’s State Street Tunnel currently on view; the Share Your Story project, which invites people to tell their own stories relating to Parks and Sites; the Centennial Challenge, which encourages people to win prizes by participating in various activities at parks and sites; and the release of the Centennial Collection merchandise. Centennial events and exhibits will take place at individual parks all summer long, ranging from parties to special hikes and programs. Additional initiatives will be announced throughout 2024.
A Clean Sweep: New York Rangers Dominate the Washington Capitals to Advance in the Playoffs"
In an electrifying display of skill, strategy, and teamwork, the New York Rangers have swept the Washington Capitals in a 4-0 series victory, propelling them forward in the playoff rotation. This triumph not only showcases the Rangers’ prowess on the ice but also marks a significant milestone in their quest for the coveted Stanley Cup.
**The Road to Victory:**
The Rangers, known for their dynamic play and resilient spirit, entered the series against the Capitals with determination and focus. From the opening face-off of Game 1 to the final buzzer of Game 4, the Rangers dominated the ice, outplaying the Capitals in every aspect of the game.
**Impact on the Playoff Rotation:**
The Rangers’ triumph over the Capitals not only advances them in the playoff rotation but also sends a strong message to their upcoming opponents. With momentum on their side and a team that’s firing on all cylinders, the Rangers are a formidable force to be reckoned with.
**Looking Ahead:**
As the Rangers prepare for the next round, fans and analysts alike are buzzing with anticipation. Can they maintain their winning streak and edge closer to the Stanley Cup? Only time will tell, but one thing is for certain: the New York Rangers are a team united in their quest for glory, and they’ve just proven they have what it takes to go all the way.
The New York Rangers’ sweep of the Washington Capitals is more than just a series win; it’s a testament to the team’s talent, hard work, and determination. As they advance in the playoffs, the Rangers are not just playing for victory; they’re playing for history. And for Rangers fans everywhere, this is a journey they won’t want to miss.
The NY Rangers Clinched The President's Trophy
In a dazzling display of skill and teamwork, the New York Rangers have clinched the prestigious Presidents’ Trophy, marking them as the team to beat this NHL season. Artemi Panarin, the Rangers’ star forward, was in the spotlight as he netted his 49th goal of the season, a milestone that contributed significantly to the Rangers’ 4-0 victory over the Ottawa Senators.
The Rangers’ triumph on Monday night was not just a testament to their offensive prowess but also highlighted their defensive strength, thanks to Igor Shesterkin’s impeccable performance between the pipes. Shesterkin, the Rangers’ goaltending maestro, recorded 26 saves to earn his fourth shutout of the season, showcasing why he’s considered one of the league’s elite netminders.
The scoring was opened by Jack Roslovic, followed by Adam Fox and Alexis Lafreniere, who each found the back of the net, adding depth to the Rangers’ scoring and demonstrating the team’s well-rounded attack. Chris Kreider, known for his speed and agility, contributed two assists, further cementing his role as a key playmaker for the team.
This victory not only secured the Rangers their league-best 55th win of the season but also set a new franchise record with 114 points. Such an outstanding achievement ensures that the Rangers will enjoy home ice advantage throughout the playoffs, a significant edge as they pursue the ultimate prize: the Stanley Cup. As the Rangers prepare for the playoffs, their performance against the Senators is a clear message to their rivals: they are a formidable force, united in their quest for glory. With a blend of seasoned veterans and emerging talents, the Rangers are poised to make a deep run in the postseason, aiming to bring the Stanley Cup back to New York.
Rangers' Valiant Effort Falls Short in 3-5 Loss to Capitals
On Tuesday, the New York Rangers faced off against the Capitals at the ice hockey arena. The Rangers had a bit of a sluggish beginning, finding themselves lagging behind the Capitals throughout the match. Igor Shesterkin, the Rangers’ goaltender, delivered a stellar performance as expected, but unfortunately, it wasn’t sufficient to secure a victory, and the Rangers fell 3-5. A disappointing loss for Rangers supporters.
Rangers Dominate Canadiens with Early Onslaught, Secure 7-2 Victory at Centre Bell
On Tuesday, October 22nd, the New York Rangers faced off against the Montreal Canadiens, making an explosive start by netting 4 goals in the first 11 minutes. Zibanejad opened the scoring, with Brodzinski, Smith, and Chytil quickly adding to the tally. The game concluded with a commanding 7-2 victory for the Rangers at Centre Bell stadium. The Rangers are set to welcome the Panthers at home on Thursday.
Rangers vs. Maple Leafs: A Battle of Hockey Titans at Scotiabank Arena Tonight
Tonight, the New York Rangers are hitting the ice once more, diving into another clash with the Original Six teams. This evening, they’re facing off against the Toronto Maple Leafs. While New York stands as a pivotal hockey market, Toronto claims the title of hockey’s heartland, making tonight’s match at Scotiabank Arena a focal point as the premier American and Canadian teams battle it out.
In their last game, Jonathan Quick was the hero for the Rangers, leading them to victory over the Detroit Red Wings with a stellar performance. Though we’re all eager to see him keep up his momentum, the buzz is that Igor Shesterkin will be reclaiming his spot as the starting goalie. Given Toronto’s dynamic offense, Shesterkin’s role will be crucial for the Rangers to secure a win and bring home the two points from Ontario.
Rangers Face Setback Against Panthers, Eye Comeback Against Ducks
Thursday night’s game was a tough pill to swallow for the Rangers and their fans, as they faced a 3-1 defeat against the Panthers at Madison Square Garden. The loss was felt deeply, both on the ice and in the stands, as hopes were high for a victory on home turf. However, the spirit of the Rangers and their supporters is undeterred, with sights now firmly set on a comeback. Saturday night offers a fresh opportunity for redemption as the Rangers gear up to face the Anaheim Ducks, once again at Madison Square Garden. The anticipation is building, and the team is eager to turn the tide in their favor, backed by the unwavering support of their fans.
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Ducks vs. Islanders: A Battle on Ice with Playoff Implications
Tonight’s NHL face-off is set to be an intriguing one, with the Anaheim Ducks squaring off against the New York Islanders. The Ducks are eager to snap a losing streak after dropping their last two games, while the Islanders aim to bounce back from a 6-3 defeat at the hands of the Florida Panthers. Offensively, the Ducks have struggled to make their mark, finding themselves in the lower echelons of the league across several key metrics including goals, shots on goal, power play efficiency, shooting percentage, and faceoff wins. Defensively, they’ve managed to keep their goals allowed per game within the top 10, but this stat masks underlying issues, such as their 29th rank in shots on goal allowed and a penalty kill percentage that leaves much to be desired.
On the flip side, the Islanders have showcased a solid defense early in the season, though their penalty kill could use some improvement. They’re bolstered by the stellar play of Ilya Sorokin, a Vezina Trophy contender, who’s been exceptional with a 1.74 goals against average. The Islanders’ defense, coupled with the Ducks’ offensive woes, suggests that any goals the Ducks manage might come through their struggling power play. While we might not be in for the most electrifying game, the Islanders, led by Sorokin’s goaltending prowess and the Ducks’ lackluster offense, are positioned to clinch a win by a comfortable margin.
"Mets' Remarkable 2024 Season Ends in LA: A Valiant Battle in the National League Championship"
The Mets’ thrilling journey through the 2024 season came to a close in Los Angeles. Despite a hard-fought series, they fell to the Dodgers, 10-5, in Game 6 of the National League Championship, witnessed by 52,674 fans at a packed Dodger Stadium. What an inspiring season it was!
Mets hitters pull off playoff feat unseen since 2002 New York becomes 1st team since 2002 Angels to avoid striking out in a postseason game
Manny Randhawa
The Mets faced elimination on Friday night at Citi Field as they took on the Dodgers in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series. Not only did New York avoid an end to its exciting postseason run, but it did so in historic fashion.
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By not striking out at all in their 44 plate appearances during a 12-6 win over Los Angeles, the Mets became the first team since the 2002 Angels and just the third team in the expansion era (since 1961), to avoid striking out in a postseason game. That Angels lineup from 22 years ago did not strike out in an 11-10 win over the Giants in Game 2 of the World Series.
The only other post-expansion club not to strike out in a playoff contest was the 1974 Pirates in Game 2 of their NLCS against the Dodgers, who won that game and the series. Including pre-expansion, the feat has been achieved just 11 times in the postseason overall.
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This was also just the third time in postseason history that a team scored 10-plus runs without striking out, joining those 2002 Angels and the 1960 Pirates, who did not strike out in their 10-9 Game 7 victory — won on Bill Mazeroski’s walk-off home run (Yankees hitters did not have a single strikeout in that game, either). The last time the Mets struck out zero times in a game came back in May of 2010 in a regular-season matchup against the Phillies.
For a team that had been limited to just two combined runs over the two previous games in the series, the Mets finally broke out of their offensive slump. Starling Marte led the way with four hits, including three doubles, and Pete Alonso crushed a three-run homer to center field in the first inning to open the scoring.
Pete Alonso talks Mets’ offense in Game 5 win
Oct 18, 2024 · 0:54
Pete Alonso talks Mets’ offense in Game 5 win
This year’s Mets will hope to follow in the 2002 Angels’ footsteps in more ways than one. That Angels club trailed San Francisco in the World Series, 3-2 — the same position in which the Mets find themselves as they head to Dodger Stadium for Game 6 of the NLCS on Sunday.
The 2002 Angels won Game 6 and Game 7. If the ’24 Mets can do the same, they’ll keep alive their dream of winning the franchise’s first World Series championship in 38 years.
Mets' bullpen 'savages' go extra mile to extend NLCS
Anthony DiComo
NEW YORK — National League Championship Series Game 5 was still in its infancy when those in the home bullpen began mentally piecing together the same puzzle as manager Carlos Mendoza. The Mets had already built a strong lead — that was good. But starting pitcher David Peterson was throwing a lot of pitches — that was bad.
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“You’re doing the math,” said right-hander Phil Maton. “You’re running it down from nine innings, and you’re trying to figure out how we’re going to do it. And you know that somebody’s going to have to come up big.”
Those two somebodies, relievers Ryne Stanek and Edwin Díaz, combined on the final 13 outs of the Mets’ 12-6 win at Citi Field on Friday, which narrowed the Dodgers’ series lead to 3-2 and ensured the series will go back to Los Angeles. For Stanek, it was a career-high seven outs and the physical challenge of three “ups,” or times taking the mound. For Díaz, it was the final six outs of a game the Mets had to win at any cost.
“These guys are nails, man,” outfielder Jesse Winker said. “They’re ready to come in and get outs. They’re savages.”
How the heavy workloads of Stanek and Díaz will affect them later in this series remains to be seen; they’ll certainly be available for a potential Game 7, if not Game 6, but will they be as sharp? Will they be able to give the Mets as much?
Ryne Stanek strikes out four Dodgers
Oct 18, 2024 · 0:39
Ryne Stanek strikes out four Dodgers
For Mendoza, those are questions for the off-day on Saturday. Game 5 was about surviving, which the Mets did behind a Pete Alonso three-run homer in the first inning and a five-run rally against Jack Flaherty — the same Jack Flaherty who had blanked them over seven innings in Game 1 — in the third. At one point, the Mets held an eight-run cushion, which seemed like plenty. In postseason history, teams that had built a lead that large were 162-1.
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Curtain Call: Pete Alonso’s three-run home run
Oct 18, 2024 · 1:09
Curtain Call: Pete Alonso’s three-run home run
Yet as the Dodgers began rallying, Mendoza found himself with little choice but to begin burning his best relievers in rather extreme ways. With several other arms unavailable due to recent workloads, Mendoza asked Stanek — traditionally a one-inning reliever — for seven outs. The right-hander responded with seven big ones. In a five-run game, Mendoza turned from there to Díaz, who recorded the final six outs for the first time in his postseason career.
“Today was the day, like, we’ve got to go forward,” Díaz said.
Two high-wire acts by Mets arms in 1st, 4th frames flip momentum in Game 5
Edwin Díaz discusses Game 5 win, his scoreless outing
Oct 18, 2024 · 1:01
Edwin Díaz discusses Game 5 win, his scoreless outing
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Before Game 5, Mendoza told both Stanek and Díaz to be ready for multi-inning assignments. Although the Mets’ bullpen was not necessarily in dire shape, it was three-quarters of the way there, with Maton unavailable, Peterson starting the game, Kodai Senga proving untrustworthy and others either overworked, ineffective or both. A night earlier, in Game 4, Mendoza had ridden left-hander Danny Young for three “ups” to save the rest of the bullpen. So important was that assignment that Mendoza personally sought out Young after the game to thank him.
Mets break the game open with a five-run 3rd inning
Oct 18, 2024 · 1:50
Mets break the game open with a five-run 3rd inning
The next morning, Mendoza sounded almost envious when discussing the Dodgers’ ability to bring hard-throwing ace reliever Michael Kopech into the fifth inning of Game 3.
“I don’t know if we have that luxury,” Mendoza said, bemoaning the relative lack of depth in his bullpen. “That’s the reality.”
The Mets on Game 5 win, building momentum for Game 6
Oct 18, 2024 · 1:44
The Mets on Game 5 win, building momentum for Game 6
Understanding his team’s strengths and weaknesses, as well as the toll that three consecutive weeks of playoff-style baseball have taken, Mendoza has relied on pitchers like Young and Tylor Megill to ease the load on everyone else. But the load on everyone else has still been heavy. Although Díaz has appeared in only two of the first five NLCS games, he’s recorded 10 total outs and thrown 52 pitches in them, on the heels of heavy usage earlier in October. Stanek has given the Mets multiple “ups” in three consecutive playoff outings, after doing it only twice during the regular season.
Starling Marte collects four hits, plates three runs
Oct 18, 2024 · 1:38
Starling Marte collects four hits, plates three runs
In a single game, these are not extraordinary feats. Piled together, series after series, week after week, relievers begin doing the math on those numbers as well. Asked how much more difficult three “ups” are compared to two, Stanek hesitated, laughed and replied: “A lot.”
“My philosophy and my approach to the game is kind of, ‘Let it all hang, and go for as hard as I can and as long as I can,’” Stanek added.
Francisco Alvarez on Game 5 win, outing from bullpen
Oct 18, 2024 · 0:56
Francisco Alvarez on Game 5 win, outing from bullpen
Asked if he would be available in Game 6 on Sunday, Stanek hesitated again before saying he would. Relievers will always offer to pitch, Mendoza tends to say. The manager’s job is making sure he’s pushing them in ways that can result in success.
No matter how Stanek and Díaz recover, the Mets will be short-handed in Game 6. They’ll need starting pitcher Sean Manaea to go as deep as possible. Across the way, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts spoke about remaining “steadfast in how you use your pitchers, because ultimately, it’s about winning four games in a seven-game series.” The Dodgers may have lost Game 5, for example, but they leaned on Brent Honeywell for 4 2/3 innings and didn’t deploy any of their high-leverage relievers as a result.
Díaz strikes out Ohtani on 99.2 mph fastball
Oct 18, 2024 · 0:40
Díaz strikes out Ohtani on 99.2 mph fastball
Advantage Dodgers in Game 6 then?
The math, as it turns out, is not that simple.
“These are must-win baseball games,” Maton said. “If guys get into trouble, we’ve got to be all hands on deck. We’ve got to find ways to win these games and stay alive.”
Dodgers upend Yanks with historic comeback for 8th World Series title
Anthony Castrovince
NEW YORK – To win it all, the Dodgers had to give it all. Had to stare down an ugly early deficit. Had to empty their bullpen. Had to rally against Gerrit Cole and then against the Yankees’ best relievers. Had to get a World Series-clinching save from starter Walker Buehler, of all people.
With an unflappable team effort, the Dodgers claimed their second World Series title in the last five years and their first in a full season since 1988 by beating the Yankees in Game 5 on Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium.
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And in this 7-6 victory, the Dodgers ushered in their champagne celebration the hard way, becoming the first team in a World Series-clinching win to come back from down five or more runs. They also became the first team in MLB postseason history to fall behind by five-plus runs, erase that deficit, fall behind again and yet still win the game.
Talk about earning your ring.
“We’re obviously resilient, but there’s so much love in this clubhouse that won this game today,” Mookie Betts said on the field postgame. “That’s what it was. It was love. It was grit. It was just a beautiful thing. I’m just proud of us, and I’m just happy for us.”
Betts joins rare company with 3rd World Series title
Mookie Betts on Dodgers’ World Series victory
Oct 31, 2024 · 1:03
Mookie Betts on Dodgers’ World Series victory
The Dodgers trailed 5-0 against an unhittable Cole early, only to score five unearned runs by taking advantage of the Yankees’ many defensive miscues in the fifth. They got only 1 1/3 innings out of starter Jack Flaherty a night after a bullpen game, which meant deploying an army of arms to navigate a revived Yankee lineup. And they trailed again in the late innings, only to manufacture the tying and go-ahead runs off high-leverage relievers Tommy Kahnle and Luke Weaver.
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In a World Series stocked with superstars and heavy on historical significance, the Dodgers proved themselves the deeper and more fundamentally sound club. And in hoisting the Commissioner’s Trophy on the heels of a 162-game season, they quieted anyone who claimed that their ongoing run of NL West dominance – including 11 division titles, 12 consecutive postseason appearances and five seasons with 100-plus wins dating back to 2013 – was marred by mostly empty Octobers, save for one burst of brilliance in the COVID-shortened 2020 season.
“Everybody talks [crap] about 2020 and whatever,” Buehler said. “But they can’t say a whole lot about it now.”
The Dodgers are champions now in a format that needs no additional explanation. En route to the franchise’s eighth title, they outlasted the division-rival Padres in a scintillating five-game Division Series, overwhelmed the Mets in the NLCS and humbled a Yankees team that had reached the Fall Classic for the first time since 2009 and had the raucous home crowds to prove it.
Dodgers are presented with the World Series trophy
Oct 31, 2024 · 4:38
Dodgers are presented with the World Series trophy
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L.A. was led by one of the greatest offensive performances in World Series history from Freddie Freeman, whose pair of RBIs in Game 5 gave him a Fall Classic record-tying 12 in only five games and the World Series MVP honors. But the Dodgers’ performance in the clincher was also evidence of how they don’t always need a gargantuan walk-off grand slam like the one Freeman provided in Game 1 – or, in fact, any balls over the wall – to piece together a postseason win.
And they absolutely ripped out the hearts of the Yankees and their home fans.
“This,” said Cole, “is as bad as it gets.”
Gerrit Cole on the Dodgers’ five-run 5th inning
Oct 31, 2024 · 2:17
Gerrit Cole on the Dodgers’ five-run 5th inning
An emotional Yankees manager Aaron Boone added: “I’m heartbroken. It doesn’t take away my pride of what that room means to me and what that group forged this year and what we’ve been through to get here. But I’m heartbroken. I’m heartbroken, and I’m heartbroken for those guys that poured so much into this. The ending is cruel. It always is.”
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Aaron Boone discusses WS Game 5 loss, end of season
Oct 31, 2024 · 5:52
Aaron Boone discusses WS Game 5 loss, end of season
The Dodgers won a Game 5 of wild extremes.
After going hitless in the first inning in each of the World Series’ first four games, the Bronx Bombers erupted in the first inning of this one. Facing Flaherty, Aaron Judge shook off his persistent postseason struggles with a 403-foot homer to the opposite field in right. And when Jazz Chisholm Jr. went back to back with a solo shot of his own to make it 3-0, Yankee Stadium was shaking.
Judge, Chisholm Jr. hit back-to-back homers
Oct 30, 2024 · 1:01
Judge, Chisholm Jr. hit back-to-back homers
Seemingly unlocked by Anthony Volpe’s Game 4 grand slam, the Yankee offense kept coming in the third, when Giancarlo Stanton obliterated Ryan Brasier’s elevated fastball for a solo blast – his seventh homer of this postseason.
Three innings, three dingers, and the Yankees were ahead, 5-0. The series, it appeared, would be heading back west.
Giancarlo Stanton’s solo home run
Oct 30, 2024 · 0:30
Giancarlo Stanton’s solo home run
But then came one of the most damaging defensive innings you’ll ever see.
It happened in the fifth. To that point, Cole had held the Dodgers hitless. But Kiké Hernández broke it up with a leadoff single. Tommy Edman then sent a fly ball Judge’s way in center field, but the ball kicked off Judge’s glove for his first error of 2024.
Tommy Edman reaches first base on an error
Oct 31, 2024 · 0:29
Tommy Edman reaches first base on an error
“I just didn’t make the play,” Judge said succinctly.
Aaron Judge on emotions of World Series loss, more
Oct 31, 2024 · 5:06
Aaron Judge on emotions of World Series loss, more
Will Smith then reached on a fielder’s choice when Volpe fielded a grounder to short and threw errantly to third on an attempted force play.
Thanks to the two errors, the Dodgers had the bases loaded. Cole settled down to strike out Gavin Lux and Shohei Ohtani. But then he made an inexplicable gaffe of his own when he didn’t cover first on a Betts grounder down the first-base line. First baseman Anthony Rizzo couldn’t beat Betts to the bag, Hernández scored, and the Dodgers were on the board.
“I took a bad angle to the ball,” Cole said. “I wasn’t sure how hard he hit it. By the time the ball got by me, I was not in a position to cover first. Neither of us were.”
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Mookie Betts’ RBI single
Oct 30, 2024 · 0:30
Mookie Betts’ RBI single
It only got worse for the Yankees from there. The unstoppable Freeman smacked a single to center to drive in a pair and make it 5-3. Then Teoscar Hernández lofted a long double off the wall in left-center to bring Betts and Freeman home to tie it at 5, with all the Dodgers’ runs in the inning unearned.
“We just took advantage of every mistake they made in that inning,” Teoscar Hernández said. “We put some good at-bats together. We put the ball in play. A lot of people say when you put the ball in play, things might happen. It happened to us in that inning, and we scored five runs.”
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Dodgers score five runs to tie game in the 5th
Oct 30, 2024 · 2:52
Dodgers score five runs to tie game in the 5th
Now, Yankee Stadium was stunned. But when New York regained the lead on a Stanton sacrifice fly in the sixth, the anticipation of a Game 6 was in the air again.
The Dodgers, though, just wouldn’t go away.
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Gavin Lux’s game-tying sac fly
Oct 30, 2024 · 0:24
Gavin Lux’s game-tying sac fly
In the eighth, they loaded the bases against Kahnle. The Yankees turned to Weaver, and Lux lifted a sac fly to center to bring in the tying run. A catcher’s interference called on Austin Wells on an Ohtani swing loaded the bases again, and Betts lifted another sac fly to center to make it 7-6.
“I had a little talk with Freddie right before that because I didn’t know what to do,” Betts said. “Freddie just said, ‘Trust your gut.’ So I went up there and just put it in play.”
Mookie Betts’ go-ahead sacrifice fly
Oct 30, 2024 · 0:29
Mookie Betts’ go-ahead sacrifice fly
After a one-out double from Judge in the eighth, Blake Treinen got some of the biggest outs of the evening when he got Stanton to fly out and Rizzo to strike out swinging. And with the ‘pen fully employed, manager Dave Roberts summoned his eighth pitcher of the evening – the most in a nine-inning World Series win. He went to Buehler, the winning pitcher in his Game 3 start on Monday and the guy who would have been in line to start a Game 7, for the final outs.
Radio call of Dodgers’ World Series victory
Oct 31, 2024 · 1:30
Radio call of Dodgers’ World Series victory
When Buehler finished a perfect inning by getting Alex Verdugo to swing through strike three, he raised his arms to his sides as the Dodgers sprinted toward the mound. With Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” nonetheless playing on the Yankee Stadium speakers, it was an odd end to an odd game. But this win was yet another example of the 2024 Dodgers having all the answers.
“This trophy belongs to everybody,” Roberts said. “Even when we were down 5-0, they persevered, kept fighting, and now we’re world champions.”
Dave Roberts on why the Dodgers won the World Series
Oct 31, 2024 · 1:21
Dave Roberts on why the Dodgers won the World Series
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Early slam sets tone as Yankees muscle up to stave off elimination
Anthony Castrovince
NEW YORK — Anthony Volpe’s wildest baseball dreams as a New Jersey lad didn’t end with his beloved Yankees getting swept in the World Series.
They ended with a moment like this. Bases loaded. Season on the line. And the kid who poured his heart into the pinstripes coming up clutch.
Volpe’s go-ahead grand slam off Dodgers reliever Daniel Hudson in the third inning of Game 4 on Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium was precisely the spark his Yanks needed to pull themselves off the mat in this matchup. It sparked a runaway 11-4 victory for the New Yorkers, who, while still trailing three games to one, have ace Gerrit Cole going at home in Game 5 on Wednesday and therefore still have a chance to make this a legit series.
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“We’ve been through so much the whole year,” said Volpe, who became the first player in World Series history to log four RBIs and two steals in a game. “We’re not going to go down easy at all.”
Anthony Volpe on his grand slam, Game 4 win
Oct 30, 2024 · 7:27
Anthony Volpe on his grand slam, Game 4 win
Faced with the prospect of becoming the first Yankees team to be swept in the World Series since 1976, the Bronx Bombers instead provided a needed reminder of why this Fall Classic featuring No. 1 seeds and iconic franchises attracted so many eyes and so much flowery coverage in the first place.
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The Volpe jolt, an effective evening for the bullpen and late-inning insurance that included long balls from Austin Wells and Gleyber Torres saved them and kept the Dodgers’ champagne on ice.
“You finally got to see,” said Yankees manager Aaron Boone, “the top blow off Yankee Stadium in a World Series game.”
Aaron Boone on Game 4 win, bullpen performance
Oct 30, 2024 · 1:57
Aaron Boone on Game 4 win, bullpen performance
Of the 41 teams to fall behind 3-0 in a best-of-seven postseason series, the Yankees are only the 10th to even avoid a sweep. Of the previous nine to do so, four managed to force a Game 6 and two forced a Game 7, although neither example occurred in the World Series. One was the 2020 Astros, who lost Game 7 to the Rays in the ALCS, and one was the 2004 Red Sox, who famously came back to the beat the Yankees in the ALCS. The Yankees are the first team to force a Game 5 when down 3-0 in a World Series since the Reds in 1970 against the Orioles.
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The Dodgers were unsuccessful in their effort to bullpen their way to a Game 4 celebration, but the silver lining to the loss was preserving their highest-leverage relievers for Game 5.
“I don’t think anyone expected [the Yankees] to lay down,” Dodgers skipper Dave Roberts said. “We had some at-bats that I thought could have been better, but we knew it was a bullpen game. As far as outcomes, to have six guys in your pen that are feeling good, rested, I feel good about that. And being up 3-1, yeah.”
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Dave Roberts on the Dodgers’ Game 4 loss
Oct 30, 2024 · 1:24
Dave Roberts on the Dodgers’ Game 4 loss
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Unbelievably and inconceivably, the scoring in Game 4 began with a Freddie Freeman home run.
Well, maybe that is believable and conceivable at this point, but there’s still no overstating how bonkers Freeman’s output on this series stage has been.
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Freddie Freeman’s two-run homer
Oct 29, 2024 · 0:29
Freddie Freeman’s two-run homer
When Freeman connected with a Luis Gil slider in the first and punched it to the short porch in right for the two-run shot that made it 2-0, it was his fourth homer in as many games this series. He joined the Astros’ George Springer (2017) as the only players to go deep four games in a row within a single World Series, and he extended his personal World Series homer streak to a record-setting six games, dating back to 2021 with the Braves.
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Freddie Freeman homers in six straight WS games
Oct 29, 2024 · 4:00
Freddie Freeman homers in six straight WS games
In that moment, with the Yankee Stadium crowd again silenced by Freeman’s first-inning fireworks, it appeared an apt time to start etching his name on the MVP trophy and to prepare the Dodgers’ postgame party. The Yankees, after all, had not led in a game since right before Freeman’s walk-off salami in Game 1, and they stranded two runners in the bottom of the first in this one to prolong their pain.
“It was a good ballgame,” Roberts said of the Dodgers’ feelings, “until it wasn’t.”
Freddie Freeman on his two-run homer, Dodgers’ loss
Oct 30, 2024 · 0:44
Freddie Freeman on his two-run homer, Dodgers’ loss
The game began to turn in the bottom of the second.
Volpe drew a walk off Ben Casparius and stole second before Wells doubled to the center-field wall. Volpe should have scored easily on the play but mistakenly hung close to second to ensure the ball was not caught. He advanced only to third. Regardless, Alex Verdugo got him home on a groundout to make it 2-1.
Alex Verdugo plates run with groundout
Oct 29, 2024 · 0:29
Alex Verdugo plates run with groundout
The following inning, Volpe more than made up for his baserunning gaffe. With Hudson on the hill, Aaron Judge was hit by a pitch. Jazz Chisholm Jr. singled to put runners on the corners, then swiped second. Giancarlo Stanton walked. The bases were loaded for Volpe, who idolized Derek Jeter growing up and now had his own opportunity to make like Captain Clutch. And on Hudson’s first pitch, Volpe delivered a no-doubt-about-it grand slam over the left-field wall to light up the Bronx and give the Yankees a 5-2 edge.
“I think I pretty much blacked out,” said Volpe, “as soon as I saw it go over the fence.”
All Calls: Anthony Volpe’s Game 4 grand slam
Oct 30, 2024 · 5:06
All Calls: Anthony Volpe’s Game 4 grand slam
But as we saw in Game 1, the Dodgers don’t die easily. Catcher Will Smith smacked a leadoff homer off Gil in the fifth, then Tommy Edman drew a walk. The Yankees went to their ‘pen, with ground-ball lefty Tim Hill summoned. The Dodgers put runners on the corners with one out and Freeman up to bat. Hill got the ground ball he wanted, but second baseman Torres’ toss to Volpe at the second-base bag to try to start a potential double play was a little high, and though Volpe’s subsequent throw to first was initially ruled to have beaten Freeman to the bag for the inning-ending DP, a replay review overturned it.
Edman safely scored from third to make it a one-run game at 5-4.
Freddie Freeman safe at first following review
Oct 29, 2024 · 0:37
Freddie Freeman safe at first following review
That’s how it remained until Wells sent a Landon Knack fastball over the right-field wall for a sixth-inning solo shot. And in the eighth, against Brent Honeywell, the Yankees got a lot more insurance when, with two runners in scoring position, Verdugo grounded to second, where Gavin Lux’s throw home was not in time to retire the streaking, sliding Volpe. Torres then stepped up and smacked a three-run shot to right-center, and, after a Juan Soto double, the slumping Judge got the lift he needed when he lined an RBI single to left.
Yankees plate five runs in the bottom of the 8th
Oct 29, 2024 · 1:23
Yankees plate five runs in the bottom of the 8th
“I feel like it really just takes one big swing, and I feel like that was Volpe’s big swing there,” Wells said. “It allowed everyone to take a deep breath and have fun. I think also the situation we were in, I think that we just needed to say, ‘Screw it,’ and go after it and have fun, because some guys may never come back to the World Series again.”
Austin Wells’ solo home run
Oct 29, 2024 · 0:29
Austin Wells’ solo home run
So on a day when the Dodgers tried to mix and match their way to a title with an all-relief effort, the Yankees adjusted to the assemblage of arms, got big outs from their own relievers (none bigger than Mark Leiter Jr. striking out Shohei Ohtani and Luke Weaver K’ing Mookie Betts with a runner at second in the seventh) and kept their season alive.
“It was just a big game,” Volpe said. “We just wanted to go 1-0 today and win today and see where it took us.”
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NEW YORK – They crammed in crowded 4 and D trains, packed the Bronx’s sports bars and streamed through the Yankee Stadium gates, ready to lend their voices to the comeback cause. But it took all of three batters for those pinstripe-clad fans to be quieted, all of three batters for the seemingly unstoppable Dodgers to assert themselves in one of the most intimidating road environments in sports.
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Sparked by – stop us if you’ve heard this one – a Freddie Freeman home run and steered by an exceptional outing from Walker Buehler, the Dodgers’ 4-2 triumph over the Yankees in Game 3 on Monday night put them on the verge of a World Series sweep.
How’d the Dodgers win this one? Well, they hit better, pitched better, ran the bases better and caught the ball better.
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“I think this team is just different than the teams we’ve had before,” said Buehler, “in terms of the way we operate in there with the 26 guys that are active that day. There’s this bond that’s kind of different. We play for each other.”
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Walker Buehler on Game 3 start, mix of pitches
Oct 29, 2024 · 4:59
Walker Buehler on Game 3 start, mix of pitches
Though they didn’t capitalize on opportunities to turn it into a blowout and the Yankees got some late life from Alex Verdugo’s two-run homer off Michael Kopech in the ninth, the Dodgers were in control early and often and are now just a win away from their second World Series title in five years and their first in a full season since 1988.
Game 4 will be back in Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night, and the Yankees can’t let it go the way this one did.
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“Hopefully we can go be this amazing story and shock the world,” manager Aaron Boone said. “But right now it’s about trying to get a lead, trying to grab a game, and force another one, and then on from there.”
Aaron Boone on the Yankees’ missed opportunities
Oct 29, 2024 · 1:37
Aaron Boone on the Yankees’ missed opportunities
In all best-of-seven postseason series, teams taking a 3-0 lead have gone on to win the series 39 of 40 times (98%), including 31 sweeps. Just two teams down 3-0 have even forced a Game 7: The 2020 Astros, who lost to the Rays in the ALCS, and the 2004 Red Sox, who famously beat the Yankees in the ALCS.
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Boone, Roberts on teams coming back from down 3-0
Oct 29, 2024 · 1:47
Boone, Roberts on teams coming back from down 3-0
The Dodgers’ 3-0 series lead felt like a foregone conclusion early in this one.
Following two days of conversation over whether Shohei Ohtani would be able to swing a bat after popping his left shoulder out of its socket late in Game 2, Ohtani didn’t need to swing at all to reach base out of the leadoff spot in the first. Yankees starter Clarke Schmidt walked him on four pitches. And one out later, Freeman, whose Game 1 walk-off grand slam and important insurance swat in Game 2 already had him in pole position for the World Series MVP honor, connected on a cutter upstairs to send it over the short porch in right field and quickly give the Dodgers a 2-0 edge.
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Freddie Freeman’s two-run home run
Oct 28, 2024 · 0:29
Freddie Freeman’s two-run home run
Freeman has now homered in each of his last five World Series games, dating back to his time with the Braves in 2021. His three dingers in this series have come while nursing a sprained right ankle.
“Like I’ve been saying the last few days, those days off [between rounds] were huge for me,” Freeman said. “I got my ankle in a spot where every single game afterwards, it’s not as it was in the NLCS and NLDS. … I got my ankle in a spot where I could work on my swing, and I got it into a good spot, thankfully, going into the series.”
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Freddie Freeman homers in five straight WS games
Oct 28, 2024 · 3:35
Freddie Freeman homers in five straight WS games
Another run came in the third, when NLCS MVP Tommy Edman drew a walk, advanced to second on an Ohtani groundout and then made a great read on Mookie Betts’ opposite-field single to right to motor home and make it 3-0. The Dodgers could have broken the game open that inning after they loaded the bases and compelled Boone to go to his bullpen by bringing in Mark Leiter Jr. with two outs. But Will Smith grounded out to end the threat.
Mookie Betts’ RBI single
Oct 28, 2024 · 0:29
Mookie Betts’ RBI single
The Dodgers stranded two more runners in the fourth, but they manufactured another insurance run in the sixth when Gavin Lux got hit by a pitch, swiped second and scored on a Kiké Hernández single.
Those Dodgers runs quieted the crowd, and Buehler silenced the Yankees’ bats.
“Walker has been pitching big games for a long time, pretty much his whole career, even in college, when he was with Vanderbilt,” Freeman said. “So these lights aren’t too big for him.”
Freddie Freeman on his hot streak, Walker Buehler
Oct 29, 2024 · 1:08
Freddie Freeman on his hot streak, Walker Buehler
Despite his big-game reputation, Buehler had an uncharacteristically difficult year in his first season back from Tommy John surgery. But in five scoreless innings in which he allowed just a pair of hits with two walks and five strikeouts, Buehler looked like his old self, with nice life on his fastball. He now has a 0.50 ERA in 18 career World Series innings.
“We play professional baseball for a living,” Buehler said. “When it’s going good, there’s not much else you’d rather do on this earth.”
Diving into Walker Buehler’s great Game 3 performance
Oct 29, 2024 · 1:53
Diving into Walker Buehler’s great Game 3 performance
The only time the Yankees got a runner to second base against Buehler came when Giancarlo Stanton doubled in the fourth. But when Anthony Volpe singled to shallow left with two outs, Yankees third-base coach Luis Rojas aggressively sent Stanton home, and the imposing DH was cut down by a perfect throw from Teoscar Hernández.
That the Yankees sent Stanton there speaks to how desperate they’ve been to get something going.
“We’re going to challenge Teoscar there a little bit, especially when he’s moving to the right,” Boone said. “Credit to him, he had a good throw.”
Teoscar Hernández nabs Stanton at home plate
Oct 28, 2024 · 0:30
Teoscar Hernández nabs Stanton at home plate
This was another ineffective evening for the Yankees’ captain Aaron Judge, another night when they struggled to get help from the bottom half of their lineup (when they had two aboard and two out with Anthony Banda on the mound for L.A. in the seventh, Gleyber Torres was called out looking for strike three), another night when their starter didn’t have it. Though Verdugo’s two-out, two-run homer in the ninth put a late jolt into the building, it was too late to spark a real rally.
Alex Verdugo’s two-run home run
Oct 28, 2024 · 0:35
Alex Verdugo’s two-run home run
To think, the Yankees were once one out from a 1-0 lead in this Series. Everything changed when Freeman connected with a Nestor Cortes fastball and limped his way into the history books.
Looking at Freddie Freeman’s recent success
Oct 29, 2024 · 2:01
Looking at Freddie Freeman’s recent success
“You know, this year, we’ve battled, we’ve faced adversity, and we just keep coming back and punching back,” Freeman said. “And it’s just a credit to our guys, our staff, everyone in this organization, we believe in ourselves, and we’ve been doing it so far.”
Now, if the Yanks don’t respond and start doing their own impression of the 2004 Red Sox, the Dodgers are dangerously close to turning this blockbuster battle of iconic franchises and signature stars into a matchup of minimum length.
Judge on postseason struggles: 'I've definitely got to step up'
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NEW YORK — Assuming the voting results for the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani and the Yankees’ Aaron Judge go as we expect them to go (hint: they will), this is only the seventh World Series to feature that season’s two MVPs.
But as the Series shifts to the Bronx for Game 3 on Monday night at Yankee Stadium, with the Dodgers up 2-0 in the best-of-seven, the big stars are faced with big questions — about Ohtani’s availability and Judge’s invisibility.
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Ohtani suffered a left shoulder subluxation in the seventh inning of the Dodgers’ 4-2 victory in Game 2 on Saturday night when he slid into second on an unsuccessful steal attempt. The injury looked bad, but Ohtani is officially in the lineup for Game 3.
“If he feels good enough to go,” manager Dave Roberts told reporters on Sunday, “I see no reason he won’t be in there.”
Even though he’s in the lineup, it remains to be seen if Ohtani is at the full extent of his capabilities. But either way, the Dodgers are in a great position in this Series. Both games at Dodger Stadium came down to a bases-loaded situation, and they both ended with an L.A. victory. Now, the Dodgers are just two wins away from their second World Series title in the last five years and their first in a full season since 1988.
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The Yankees, meanwhile, aren’t sweating an injury when it comes to Judge, but they’d sure feel better about their chances of mounting a rally in this Series if his booming bat would come into play.
Through two games against the Dodgers, Judge is 1-for-9 with six strikeouts. For the postseason as a whole, he’s 6-for-40 with 19 strikeouts. It’s a far cry from a regular season in which Judge’s 58 homers, 144 RBIs and 1.159 OPS made for one of the best performances by a right-handed hitter in history.
“I’ve definitely got to step up, and I’ve got to do my job,” Judge said. “Guys around me are doing their jobs, getting on base, and I’m failing at backing them up. We’ve got to turn it around in Game 3.”
Aaron Judge on his struggles, being down 2-0
Oct 27, 2024 · 1:18
Aaron Judge on his struggles, being down 2-0
The Yankees are up against it now. Only 15 teams in 92 tries have won a best-of-seven postseason series in which they dropped the first two games. And so, as their Game 3 starter Clarke Schmidt takes the ball opposite the Dodgers’ Walker Buehler, they’re going to need to feed off the energy of a hungry crowd that hasn’t seen a World Series home game in the Bronx since the Yanks’ 2009 title run.
“It’ll be a great atmosphere,” slugger Giancarlo Stanton said. “They’ll bring the noise. They understand what’s at stake right now.”
Giancarlo Stanton on returning home, Aaron Judge
Oct 27, 2024 · 0:41
Giancarlo Stanton on returning home, Aaron Judge
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Dodgers discuss victory in Game 2 of World Series
Oct 27, 2024 · 3:48
Dodgers discuss victory in Game 2 of World Series
Who are the starting pitchers?
Dodgers: RHP Walker Buehler (1-6, 5.38 ERA in the regular season)
Buehler’s regular season didn’t go as expected once he returned from a second Tommy John surgery, but the right-hander has had a strong postseason for the Dodgers. Buehler’s final line against the Padres in NLDS Game 3 looks worse than his overall performance. He then bounced back in a pivotal Game 3 in the NLCS, tossing four scoreless innings against the Mets.
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The right-hander has always been a strong postseason performer, and his next challenge will be the biggest: Help the Dodgers take an even more commanding series lead in the Bronx.
Dave Roberts on Walker Buehler starting Game 3
Oct 26, 2024 · 0:24
Dave Roberts on Walker Buehler starting Game 3
Yankees: RHP Clarke Schmidt (5-5, 2.85 ERA in the regular season)
Schmidt will make his third career postseason start and his first in the World Series. He tossed 4 2/3 innings of two-run ball in each of his first two outings this October, taking no-decisions against the Royals and Guardians. Schmidt pitched to a 4.50 ERA in eight home starts during the regular season, compared to a 1.39 ERA in eight road outings.
Clarke Schmidt on starting Game 3 of the World Series
Oct 26, 2024 · 2:02
Clarke Schmidt on starting Game 3 of the World Series
What are the starting lineups?
Dodgers: Ohtani is good to go at his usual leadoff spot.
Shohei Ohtani, DH
Mookie Betts, RF
Freddie Freeman, 1B
Teoscar Hernández, LF
Max Muncy, 3B
Will Smith, C
Gavin Lux, 2B
Kiké Hernández, CF
Tommy Edman, SS
Dodgers react to Shohei Ohtani’s injury in Game 2
Oct 27, 2024 · 2:33
Dodgers react to Shohei Ohtani’s injury in Game 2
Yankees: Jose Trevino got the start in Game 3 over Austin Wells, who has gone 4-for-41 this postseason and 1-for-8 over the first two World Series games. Rizzo and Volpe flipped spots in the order from Games 1 and 2.
Gleyber Torres, 2B
Juan Soto, RF
Aaron Judge, CF
Giancarlo Stanton, DH
Jazz Chisholm Jr., 3B
Anthony Volpe, SS
Anthony Rizzo, 1B
Jose Trevino, C
Alex Verdugo, LF
Aaron Boone on Rodón, offense’s struggles in Game 2
Oct 27, 2024 · 2:53
Aaron Boone on Rodón, offense’s struggles in Game 2
How will the bullpens line up after the starter?
Dodgers: Anthony Banda, Alex Vesia, Michael Kopech and Blake Treinen pitched in both games and could be somewhat limited heading into Game 3. Having the off-day does help, but the Dodgers will need to be mindful of the fact that they have a bullpen game lined up for Tuesday’s Game 4. But if the Dodgers take an early lead and have an opportunity to win a third game in the series, Roberts will be aggressive with his high-leverage relievers.
Alex Vesia secures Dodgers’ Game 2 victory
Oct 26, 2024 · 0:24
Alex Vesia secures Dodgers’ Game 2 victory
Yankees: The Yankees had to backfill Game 2 after Carlos Rodón registered only 10 outs. Jake Cousins (21 pitches), Tim Hill (14 pitches), Clay Holmes (23 pitches), and Mark Leiter Jr. (9 pitches) were all used, but an off-day between games helps. Cousins and Holmes also pitched in Game 1.
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Tim Hill’s strong outing in Game 2
Oct 26, 2024 · 0:39
Tim Hill’s strong outing in Game 2
Any injuries of note?
Dodgers: Ohtani was the biggest concern heading into this game but he won’t miss any time.
Shohei Ohtani injured after stolen base attempt
Oct 26, 2024 · 0:29
Shohei Ohtani injured after stolen base attempt
Yankees: Rizzo is playing through two fractured fingers on his right hand, which is a pain tolerance issue, as the fractures won’t heal until the offseason. Infielder DJ LeMahieu (right hip impingement) has been continuing to hit and field throughout the playoffs.
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Who is hot and who is not?
Dodgers: Edman continues his hot hitting, following up a two-hit Game 1 with a solo homer and a double in Game 2. Freeman has also homered in back-to-back games, extending his World Series home run streak to four games.
Tommy Edman’s solo home run
Oct 26, 2024 · 0:30
Tommy Edman’s solo home run
Yankees: Juan Soto homered and had two hits in Game 2. Of his four homers this postseason, three have given the Yankees the lead, and one has tied the game. Stanton has six homers and 14 RBIs this postseason. Rizzo has produced a .520 on-base percentage. Judge continues to slump, now 6-for-40 (.150) with 19 strikeouts during this postseason. Jazz Chisholm Jr. (.186 BA) and Austin Wells (.098 BA) also have struggled.
Juan Soto’s solo home run
Oct 26, 2024 · 0:29
Juan Soto’s solo home run
Anything else fans might want to know?
• There’s a lot to know just about Game 2! Catch up on all the amazing factoids here, and look back at all the fun facts from Game 1 here.
• The Yankees have won eight of the previous 11 World Series meetings between the clubs (1941, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1977, 1978). The Dodgers were victorious three times (1955, 1963, 1981).
• The Dodgers and Yankees had a World Series preview June 7-9 at Yankee Stadium, with Los Angeles winning two of the three games. Teoscar Hernández had a go-ahead, two-run double in the 11th inning of the first game, a 2-1 Dodgers win, then hit two homers in an 11-3 rout the next night. The Yanks salvaged the finale with a 6-4 win, powered by Trent Grisham’s three-run homer off Tyler Glasnow.
Judge on postseason struggles: 'I've definitely got to step up'
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LOS ANGELES — Aaron Judge and Derek Jeter strolled side-by-side around Dodger Stadium in the afternoon hours ahead of World Series Game 1. Filming a walk-and-talk segment for the FOX television broadcast, the current Yankees captain told his predecessor of his hunger to deliver a Yankees championship.
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“The expectation isn’t just to get to the World Series, it’s to win it,” Judge said, as Jeter nodded.
Time is running out for Judge to deliver. His postseason woes continued with a 1-for-9 performance with six strikeouts in his first two career World Series games, including a hitless showing in the Yankees’ 4-2 Game 2 loss to the Dodgers on Saturday night.
Breakdown of Aaron Judge’s postseason struggles
Oct 27, 2024 · 2:46
Breakdown of Aaron Judge’s postseason struggles
“I’ve definitely got to step up, I’ve got to do my job,” Judge said. “Guys around here are doing their job, getting on base. I’m failing them, backing them up. We’ve got to turn it around.”
For so much of this season, Judge has fueled the Bombers’ engine. With his bat stalled throughout the postseason, other contributors like Juan Soto and Giancarlo Stanton have had to carry the load.
“It’s all about one at-bat,” Soto said. “I know it’s tough, but I feel like when you’re a hitter like him, he’s one of the greatest. I feel like it’s only going to take one at-bat for him to lock in and be on it.”
The Yankees won an American League-best 94 games during the regular season in large part because of Judge’s performance, arguably his best to date.
Considered a lock to receive his second AL Most Valuable Player Award, Judge paced the Majors in numerous offensive categories, including home runs (58), RBIs (144), walks (133), on-base percentage (.458), slugging percentage (.701) and OPS+ (223).
But it has been a different story in October, a most unwelcome callback to the early-season struggles that saw Judge batting .197 as late as May 2.
“I want him to get results, obviously, and I want him to get hot and get going,” manager Aaron Boone said. “I feel like he will. Hopefully that’s now.”
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The Yankees didn’t fret when Judge went 2-for-13 in the AL Division Series against the Royals, believing that it constituted a small sample size.
Judge did homer twice in the AL Championship Series against the Guardians, including a game-tying blast off closer Emmanuel Clase in Game 3 that would have registered as an all-time moment, had the Yankees’ bullpen not faltered late.
Those teams, like the Dodgers, have exploited Judge’s willingness to chase pitches outside the strike zone. Overall, Judge is batting .150 (6-for-40) with a double, two homers and six RBIs through 11 postseason games, with seven walks and 19 strikeouts. He is 0-for-10 with runners in scoring position.
“I think it’s trying to make things happen instead of letting the game come to you,” Judge said. “You see Gleyber [Torres] out there on base, Juan [Soto] is getting on base, doing things, you want to try to make something happen. But if you’re not going to get a pitch in the zone, you’ve got to just take your walks instead. Plain and simple, I’ve got to start swinging at strikes.”
Jazz Chisholm Jr. said he believes Judge will rise to the occasion as the World Series shifts to Yankee Stadium.
“We’re all a little bit anxious; it’s the first two World Series games in our careers,” Chisholm said. “You’re going to go out there a little bit anxious. I feel like when we get home, he’s going to feel more confident and he’s going to calm down. The swing still looks the same, it’s just a timing difference.”
Dating farther back to 2020, Judge has produced just a .146/.236/.346 slash line in his last 28 postseason games, a jarring contrast to the mighty performance that has made him one of the game’s most feared hitters during the regular season.
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“It definitely eats at you,” Judge said. “You want to contribute and help the team, but that’s why you got to keep working and keep swinging. I can’t sit here and feel bad for myself. Nobody’s feeling bad for me.”
About an hour before Game 2, Judge exchanged pleasantries with another Hall of Famer with a unique perspective. Dave Winfield’s relationship with George Steinbrenner never recovered after a 1-for-22 showing in the 1981 World Series, with Steinbrenner deriding Winfield as “Mr. May,” a sharp contrast to Reggie Jackson’s “Mr. October.”
Certainly, the current Yankees ownership would never criticize the face of their franchise so sharply. Yet they desire to call him a World Series champion, a title that might not be achieved this autumn if Judge does not produce in the games ahead.
“I think the overall numbers don’t say how good of at-bats he’s had,” Stanton said. “Obviously, you see the overall numbers he’s had. He’s had good at-bats that haven’t showed for it. He’s got time to help us win some games.”
Lefty-lefty matchup backfires with Yanks 1 out from victory
Bryan Hoch
LOS ANGELES — Nestor Cortes needed to get two outs, registering the first as Alex Verdugo snared a Shohei Ohtani pop fly, flipping over a short wall down the left-field line. It was a terrific grab, one that might have been one of the most replayed moments from Game 1 of the World Series if not for what happened next.
Cortes thanked his outfielder, exhaling on the mound. Now just one out from a victory, manager Aaron Boone opted to walk Dodgers star Mookie Betts to get a lefty-lefty matchup with first baseman Freddie Freeman. Cortes chose to start with a fastball, one that the Dodgers star jolted for the first walk-off grand slam in the Fall Classic’s lengthy history, sending the Yankees to a 6-3 loss at Dodger Stadium.
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“I think if I make my pitch there, obviously it’s a different result,” Cortes said. “I didn’t stay on the field long enough to think about it or see him run the bases. I just walked in, kind of turned the page right there and then.”
It was a wild flip of emotions for Cortes, who was included on the World Series roster earlier Friday after not having pitched since Sept. 18 due to a left elbow flexor strain.
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But he had pitched well in simulated action, most recently tossing 28 pitches from the Yankee Stadium mound on Tuesday. That session convinced the Yankees that they could use Cortes as an extra reliever to challenge the tough lefties in the Dodgers lineup, specifically Ohtani and Freeman. Cortes felt up to the task.
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“The guy had a flexor strain and pushed the envelope to get back,” Verdugo said. “He’s a big-time pitcher for us. Freddie got him, he made a great swing. These are great hitters, great players. Sometimes you’ve got to tip your cap, the other guys get you. But I’ve got my money on Nestor every time.”
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As right-hander Jake Cousins faced the bottom third of the Dodgers’ lineup in the 10th, Boone had Cortes and left-hander Tim Hill warming side-by-side, bypassing left-hander Tim Mayza. Cortes said he’d been “ready since the fourth inning” and that his warmup “felt better than expected,” which he attributed to adrenaline.
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There were two men on and one out as Boone opted for Cortes; previous history played a role, as Ohtani had been 2-for-12 lifetime against Cortes and 1-for-4 against Hill.
“I just liked the matchup,” Boone said. “The reality is, [Cortes] has been throwing the ball really well the last few weeks as he’s gotten ready for this. I knew with one out there, it would be tough to double up Shohei if Tim Hill gets him on the ground, and then Mookie behind him is a tough matchup there. So I felt convicted with Nestor in that spot.”
Freddie Freeman on his plate approach, Kirk Gibson
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Boone said he had Hill warming in the event of a two-out situation and to make sure Cortes had time to warm up properly. Cortes has acknowledged the risks involved with accelerating his recovery from the injury, saying that it is worth it for a chance at a ring.
“You never know when you’re going to be in this situation, this spot with this opportunity,” Cortes said.
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Oct 26, 2024 · 3:03
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The pitch to Ohtani, Cortes said, had not been perfect – but it was “good enough to get him,” jamming the National League’s presumptive MVP. After Verdugo’s grab moved runners to second and third bases, the Yankees intentionally walked Betts, bringing up Freeman with the bags full.
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“Once I saw Aaron give the 4, I just started going through my plan and my process, what I was going to look for and where I was going to look for it,” Freeman said. “[Cortes throws] a lot of heaters that kind of ride. So I just wanted to be on top of it and be on time for it.”
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Their showdown would last just one pitch — Cortes nicked the inside corner with a 92.5 mph fastball and Freeman hammered it over the right-field wall, a drive that launched a thousand callbacks to Kirk Gibson’s game-winning blast in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series.
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Standing at his locker to field questions for more than 10 minutes in the wake of the defeat, Cortes said he believes the Yankees can and will recover. The same is true for himself.
“If I wasn’t ready enough and I wasn’t healthy enough, I would not have done it. And they wouldn’t have allowed me,” Cortes said. “So I think we’re in a good spot. I’ll get another opportunity. We’ve got to win four games in this Series. It was right there on our fingertips, but we’re going to come back tomorrow strong.”
HOF in reach? Stanton stating case with torrid October showing
Anthony Castrovince
CLEVELAND — Years ago, when Mike Stanton was newly rechristened “Giancarlo” and the Florida Marlins were newly rechristened “Miami,” the hulking 22-year-old who was just a few hundred games into his big-league tenure with that team sat right here at Progressive Field, in the visitor’s clubhouse, and was asked what kind of career he envisioned for himself.
“I want to be a hitter,” Stanton said that day in 2012. “I don’t want to do the whole .230 with 45 homers thing. I didn’t have year-round baseball growing up, so I didn’t learn how to hit. I just knew how to hit the ball hard.”
To many, that’s what Stanton is known as — a dude who hits the ball hard. And in Game 4 of this American League Championship Series, that’s exactly what he did with yet another game-changing October blast.
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The three runs driven in by Stanton’s towering, 404-foot, 105.7-mph fly ball to the bleachers off Cade Smith’s four-seam fastball in the top of the sixth might not have stood as the go-ahead runs on another crazy night at Progressive Field, but it was certainly the biggest swing of the 8-6 triumph that has Stanton’s Yanks one win away from the World Series. And this from the same guy who had put the Yankees ahead — before the bullpen blew it — with a mammoth shot to center off Emmanuel Clase in Game 3.
To watch these titanic taters was to know that, yes, the now-34-year-old Stanton is hitting the ball hard as ever. But it’s that desire to be a great hitter — and not merely a home-run hitter — that put him in the position to do so on this elevated stage and against truly elite arms.
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You don’t do that by just going up there swinging freely and hoping to run into one.
“I just try to get any bit of information I can, any bit of film, all the swings I need,” Stanton said. “I exhaust it. That’s why I’m exhausted after these, and I enjoy that. I enjoy that grind. I need to.”
What’s not to enjoy about the way Stanton has performed this postseason? He’s slashing .300/.400/.767 in eight games. He’s hit four homers with two doubles, nine RBIs, five walks and five runs scored. He’s even swiped a base!
To watch this play out is to know that it’s time to think about Stanton not as a too-often-injured designated hitter who wasn’t as successful as many hoped in his bid to be Aaron Judge’s running mate.
It’s time to start thinking about him as a potential Hall of Famer.
That might sound crazy, given the narrative that has surrounded Stanton for much of his Yankee tenure. He came to the Bronx saying, “I feel sorry for the baseballs,” but we wound up feeling sorry for him. He’s had too many lower-half hindrances to count, reaching 500 plate appearances only twice in seven seasons in pinstripes. It’s why Yankees general manager Brian Cashman made a comment at last year’s General Managers Meetings that he has to plan on Stanton “getting hurt again, more likely than not, because it seems to be a part of his game.”
Cashman later tried to clarify that comment, but — let’s face it — he was right. Injuries, unfortunately, are a part of Stanton’s game, limiting him to 114 of them this year.
And yet, when you look at what Stanton has produced, when healthy, in the regular and postseasons, it’s starting to look like the kind of stuff you etch on a plaque.
Giancarlo Stanton talks his three-run homer in Game 4
Oct 18, 2024 · 1:10
Giancarlo Stanton talks his three-run homer in Game 4
Stanton was the NL home run champ (37) with the Fish in 2014 and finished second in the MVP voting that year. Three years later, he was the NL MVP. He hasn’t finished higher than 19th in the voting in the time since, but he has put himself just 71 homers shy of 500, which in the past has served as a ticket to Cooperstown for those not publicly connected to PEDs.
Taking a player’s production in the context of his era is important. And in the context of his era, Stanton has performed 36% better (a 136 OPS+) than the average hitter.
You know who else had a career OPS+ of 136? Ken Griffey Jr.
Obviously, Stanton is not Griffey in terms of the totality of his contributions, but that does provide a better understanding of his plate production.
And then there’s the postseason, which, for Stanton, is another level entirely.
There’s an argument to be made that postseason numbers should matter more than ever when considering a player’s Hall case, because the postseason is beefier than ever. With more and longer rounds, with more teams, and with, therefore, less emphasis on the regular season, the MLB calendar is oriented around October more than ever.
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And nobody has owned October quite like Giancarlo Stanton.
Stanton has now gone deep 15 times and driven in 33 runs in 35 career postseason games. On a per-game basis, he is the most prolific home run hitter in the history of the postseason, surpassing Babe Ruth (15 in 41 games). If you extrapolated Stanton’s playoff production over the course of a 162-game season, he’d have 67 homers and 143 RBIs.
Giancarlo Stanton on the Yankees’ approach, more
Oct 19, 2024 · 4:40
Giancarlo Stanton on the Yankees’ approach, more
“I believe that when the big moments are there and he’s focused, he’s as good as anybody out there,” said Eduardo Pérez, who is part of ESPN Radio’s crew for this ALCS and was Stanton’s hitting coach in Miami in 2011-12. “He’s always been able to hit elite pitching. And when the postseason comes around, it’s about elite pitching. That’s why he’s able to harness and focus.”
In the booth, Pérez said he is more focused on Stanton’s takes than his swings.
“His takes,” Pérez said, “are what keeps him on time.”
Stanton took a called first strike in the sixth, and 0-1 is a dangerous place to be against Smith, who came into this game having struck out 15 of the 30 batters he had faced in the postseason. After swinging through strike two, Stanton watched ball one, and then blasted Smith’s 94.2-mph four-seamer in the upper-third of the zone.
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Oct 19, 2024 · 0:31
Cade Smith discusses Giancarlo Stanton at-bat
The previous night, Stanton fouled off a Clase slider and three cutters before getting and ripping an 89.5-mph slider in the lower third.
These are at-bats that would not have happened for Stanton early in his career, when he was more of a mistake hitter. The Marlins had a machine in the indoor batting cage that would spit out spin, and Stanton would stand in the box and face scuffed balls that would move laterally away from him. For every 100 pitches, probably 80 would be out of the zone, and the drill had the intention of teaching Stanton how to read them, how to adjust to the mystifying movement that was only beginning to overtake MLB.
“He had never seen spin at the high school level,” Pérez said. “He couldn’t recognize it.”
He’s recognizing it now. And we all ought to recognize that this is a special player at the top of his game in the games that matter most.
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Oct 18, 2024 · 0:40
Field View: Giancarlo Stanton’s three-run homer
Maybe that doesn’t get Giancarlo Stanton to the Hall of Fame. But it’s getting him closer to a case than those who only think of him as an injury-prone homer hitter might realize.
For now, Stanton has a different goal.
“I want a ring,” he said.
That’s another thing that would look good on a plaque.
'Gritty, tough' attack puts Yanks on doorstep of World Series
Bryan Hoch
CLEVELAND – The exuberant celebration spilled from the first-base dugout as Giancarlo Stanton silenced the crowd with a sixth-inning trip around the bases, a three-run blast that provided breathing room for what the Yankees hoped would be a low-stress tour through their taxed bullpen.
They should have known nothing comes that easily in the postseason.
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A wild back-and-forth battle was ultimately decided by Alex Verdugo’s run-scoring dribbler as the Yankees dinged elite closer Emmanuel Clase for the second time in as many nights, arriving at the doorstep of the World Series with an 8-6 victory over the Guardians in Friday’s Game 4 of the American League Championship Series.
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“It feels like nothing until we get it done,” Stanton said. “As far as I’m concerned, we haven’t done nothing. We’ll enjoy this for now, but we’ve got to get it done tomorrow and on to the next.”
Jon Berti scored the go-ahead run in the ninth on an error by shortstop Brayan Rocchio, and Gleyber Torres added an RBI single. Tommy Kahnle notched his second career postseason save as the Yankees wiped clean any lingering effects of a crushing Game 3 defeat, exhibiting an ability to rebound that has become their in-house hallmark.
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“I’m not surprised with these guys,” manager Aaron Boone said. “Obviously last night was a really tough loss. Whatever happened today – win, lose or draw – there’s no doubt in my mind we’d come out ready to roll and ready to turn the page.”
Aaron Boone on Yankees’ ALCS Game 4 win
Oct 19, 2024 · 1:33
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Juan Soto hit a two-run homer and Austin Wells also went deep for the Yankees, the American League’s top team with 94 wins during the regular season. Their next victory can secure the 41st pennant in franchise history, and their first since 2009.
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“This team is focused on what we’ve got to accomplish and what we’ve got to do,” Aaron Judge said. “We’ve seen it all year, when we have a couple of tough games or a tough series. This team always bounces back and answers back the right way. This was definitely a big win.”
In all best-of-seven postseason series, teams leading 3-1 have gone on to win on 79 of 93 occasions (84.9%), including 37 of 45 times in the LCS.
Jon Berti scores the go-ahead run in the 9th
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Jon Berti scores the go-ahead run in the 9th
Judge called Stanton’s sixth-inning blast off Cade Smith “a thing of beauty,” marking the slugger’s 15th career postseason homer (in 35 games). It gave the Bombers a four-run advantage going to the seventh, a welcome cushion, but no knockout blow.
“No lead is safe,” Stanton said. “It’s a great team over there, but it’s just important to keep pushing. We need every single person on our team to contribute in some way. We’re going to need everybody.”
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That was an ongoing theme in what Boone described as “an excellent game – not a perfect game, but a gritty, tough, winning game.” Luis Gil’s postseason debut lasted four innings and Tim Hill contributed a scoreless frame, working for the fourth time in five days.
Boone had few fresh options, leading him to swap Jake Cousins to seek outs from Clay Holmes, who appeared for the fourth time in five days after surrendering David Fry’s deciding Game 3 homer.
“We had a long way to go to the finish line, and frankly, I wasn’t quite sure how we were going to get there,” Boone said.
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José Ramírez stroked a run-scoring double and Josh Naylor clipped a two-run double off Holmes, the rafters of Progressive Field quivering with Cleveland suddenly down by only a run. The Yankees called upon Mark Leiter Jr., who was added to the roster earlier in the day as an injury replacement.
Leiter escaped without damage in the seventh, though Jhonkensy Noel (the ninth-inning hero of Game 3) provided a scare with a deep flyout before Leiter recorded an inning-ending strikeout of Andrés Giménez.
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Mark Leiter Jr. preserves the lead in the 7th
Cleveland tied the game in the eighth, as Bo Naylor doubled, then scored on Fry’s soft tapper that Leiter fumbled and tossed errantly through Anthony Rizzo’s legs at first base — the latest example of defense and baserunning that has hardly been crisp in this postseason.
Ideal? No. Yet, thus far, it has not kept the Yanks from winning.
“Every moment has an energy to it,” Leiter said. “The cool thing about this group and getting to watch it from the dugout is, it’s just next opportunity, next at-bat, next pitcher. Everybody really plays for each other.”
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The tie game suggested a late advantage for Cleveland, but Stanton said the Yanks had confidence that they could get to Clase again to author a more palatable conclusion.
“Not being scared, not being intimidated, just going in there with the right proper plan,” Stanton said. “It’s going to be a tough at-bat, we know that, but this game is tough and we need runs.”
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Kahnle noted that the Yankees have had “plenty of crazy games with Cleveland in the postseason,” adding, “It seems that it happens every time. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s another one tomorrow.”
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With that in mind, their postgame celebration featured a hearty acknowledgment of contributors like Leiter, then the usual Spotify playlist of hip hop and funk that accompanied each previous win.
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Even with the biggest game of the year on deck, they opted to treat this night like any other, a cue they took from their captain.
“We’ve been in this moment before,” Judge said. “We just treat it like we have these past couple of games, just focus on what we’ve got to do tomorrow and go from there. I think the best thing to do in these situations is keep it simple.”
Notebook: Giants 'frustrated' by missed opportunities
Michael Eisen
Giants.com Senior Writer/Editor
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Daniel Jones used the words “frustrated” or “frustrating” in a postgame news conference that lasted less than five minutes.
Dexter Lawrence said his level of frustration is “extremely high.”
Brian Burns said the current Giants team “needs to grow up.”
The Giants’ locker room in Acrisure Stadium was not a happy place as Monday night turned into Tuesday morning. That, of course, is wholly understandable considering the Giants had just lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers, 26-18. The defeat was their third in a row and dropped their record to 2-6. It was the sixth time in eight games they scored fewer than 20 points.
The aggravation was evident well before the Giants filed into their locker room. Lawrence made his feelings known to several defensive backs after George Pickens seemingly caught a touchdown pass. That the score was overturned on replay didn’t mollify one of the Giants’ defensive captains.
“I’m a passionate guy and I just said, ‘We gotta play harder, we gotta stop that play, that play shouldn’t have happened,'” Lawrence said. “It shouldn’t, came down to the decision and I just said we gotta play harder. We let a touchdown happen; we want to prevent those in the red area.”
After the Giants scored their only touchdown in the game in the fourth quarter, their 2-point conversion try from an unorthodox formation failed, prompting Jones’ negative reaction to be unusually demonstrative.
“I don’t have concern with that,” coach Brian Daboll said of the emotional outbursts. “I think we have guys, like Dex, who’s a good leader. I want leaders to be able to do that. Again, that’s part of leadership at times. We have a close-knit group. It’s a competitive game. Things like that are going to happen at times. But our guys are pretty close.”
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Daboll certainly understands the players’ reactions. He’s been an NFL coach for 24 years and has been immersed in some unpleasant situations. Daboll understands better than anyone that players won’t accept poor play without a fight, physically or emotionally. Their next opportunity to get step on a winning path is Sunday at home against the Washington Commanders.
“Losing is frustrating,” Daboll said today. “So, what we can do is control the things that we can control. You put everything you have into this each week. When you’re having all those meetings and you’re going through all those practices and you’re giving everything you have on the field, everybody, and you don’t get the results, certainly that is. So, particularly right after a game, that was a close game. That was a competitive game and nobody’s happy with our record. I’ve said that before. So, we have to come in with the right mindset like we do each week and do everything we can do to put the best product on a field we can on Sunday and that’s always the challenging par. But you’re never happy after a loss. That’s why you do this, to win.”
Prior to joining the Giants in 2022, Daboll was a long-time highly successful offensive assistant and coordinator. This season, his third with the Giants, he is calling the plays for the first time. The Giants’ average of 16.7 points a game is the NFL’s second lowest, but Daboll will not question his belief that the offense is capable of higher achievement.
“I think all you can do is prepare as hard as you can prepare, all of us,” he said. “Then go out there with confidence to go out there and execute the plays, to call the plays and to be on time with them. That’s why you prepare for it. So, again, you do everything you can do each and every week to prepare the right way, to practice the right way. We want different results. We’ve got to continue to work to try to get those.”
Three fourth-quarter plays illustrate where the Giants’ offense currently stands.
The first was the 2-point conversion attempt. Jones stood in shotgun formation in the middle of the field behind center John Michael Schmitz, who was flanked by tackle Chris Hubbard and tight end Theo Johnson. To the far left, five players formed a wall in front of wide receiver Malik Nabers. Jones caught the snap and fired immediately to Nabers, but Alex Highsmith slipped through the blockers and broke up the pass.
“We’ve been working on it for a while,” Daboll said. “(Running back Devin Singletary, part of the wall) was actually checking with the official to make sure that he was on the line of scrimmage. Daniel saw the look that we needed to get to where we were just gonna throw the ball out there to Malik. We had a bunch of blockers, but he was talking to the official and (after) he snapped it, Daniel threw it out there and there were only two guys out there and he got by him.”
When he did, Jones angrily vented as he walked to the sideline.
“I was just upset we didn’t convert it,” Jones said.
“I loved seeing his competitiveness,” Daboll said. “He works his butt off, and there is no one in this locker room that takes it harder than him. He played hard. Thought he did a lot of good things.”
The Giants had a chance to tie the game when Bobby Okereke recovered Russell Wilson’s fumble at the Pittsburgh 37-yard line with 4:34 remaining. They got as far as the 19, but on third down, perennial game-wrecker T.J. Watt slipped past tackle Jermaine Eluemunor to force and recover Jones’ fumble.
As he had much of the game, Johnson was supposed to help Eluemunor. “Jermaine was anticipating a chip,” Daboll said. Jones took responsibility for leaving the tackle alone against one of the league’s premier pass rushers.
“I didn’t shift him,” Jones said. “Jermaine’s expecting me to shift so he didn’t get that. And so that’s my fault.”
A final opportunity arose after the Steelers punted and the Giants took over at their own 7-yard line with 1:53 left. They advanced to the Pittsburgh 35, but Jones’ second-down pass to Singletary sailed over the running back’s head and was intercepted by rookie Beanie Bishiop.
“Threw it too high,” Jones said.
“On the last play, the ball got away from him a little bit on the interception,” Daboll said. “The series before that, we got the strip sack. I think that he did some good things throughout the game, made some good decisions, made some good checks. I thought he pushed the ball down the field and gave our guys some opportunities to make. … And he did a good job of operating the plays and the checks and things that we had in that environment. So, I thought he did some good things and then ultimately, like you said at the end there, it’s all of us. We just didn’t get it done.
“But I thought he played extremely hard, competitive, fiery. That’s what you want from your quarterback.”
It’s still oh-so-frustrating when you lose.
*Daboll didn’t elaborate on the reason cornerback Deonte Banks was benched in the second quarter and did not return to the game. He did say Banks will start against Washington.
“I would just say we made that decision and went in a different direction after the first 27 plays,” Daboll said. “I have full confidence in Tae that he’ll be ready to go this week, and we’ll do everything we can to help him be ready to go.”
*Tyrone Tracy, who leads the Giants in rushing attempts (73), yards (376) and average (5.2 a carry) is in the NFL concussion protocol.
Who is NY Jets’ best option to replace Greg Zuerlein as kicker?
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The New York Jets are holding a kicking competition after Greg Zuerlein missed an NFL-high six attempts through the season’s first eight weeks.
“We are going to do what is best of the team,” said interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich. “We are going to have a good week of work. We are going to bring some guys in and have a competition, and the best guy will play on Thursday.”
Who is the Jets’ best option to replace the struggling veteran?
New York Jets’ free agent kicker options
It has not been reported who will be participating in the competition, but less than two weeks ago, the Jets worked out three free agent kickers: Matt Coghlin, Riley Patterson, and Cade York.
Patterson has appeared in 39 NFL games with the Lions, Jaguars, and Browns, drilling 59 of his 67 field goal attempts (88.1%) and 93 of 97 extra points (95.9%). While he is reliable within 50 yards at 91.8%, his range is limited, as he is 3-for-6 from 50+ yards with a career-long of 53 yards.
It is worth noting that Patterson is coming off a rough preseason with the Washington Commanders, making just 2-of-5 attempts with all three of his misses coming from under 50 yards.
Coghlin spent the last two seasons kicking in the UFL after graduating from Michigan State in 2021, emerging as one of the league’s premier kickers. He converted 34-of-36 field goal attempts (94.4%), including 6-of-7 from 50+ yards with a long of 57.
York has appeared in 18 NFL regular-season matchups, mostly for the Browns in 2022. He kicked for the Commanders in this year’s season opener but was released after missing both of his field goal attempts, coming from 47 and 56 yards.
York possesses a career field goal percentage of just 70.6%, converting 24 of his 34 attempts. He is prone to missing shorter kicks, converting just 76.9% of his attempts inside 50 yards.
I believe Patterson is the best option for the Jets, given his NFL experience, proven accuracy, and consistency, which are essential qualities for a kicker. York is too risky due to his inaccuracy and limited experience. Coghlin presents an intriguing option; however, despite his success in the UFL, his lack of NFL game experience raises concerns.
The Jets must confront this glaring issue head-on, and signing Patterson seems to be the most ideal solution to help them regain their footing on special teams.
Mayor Adams Awards Key to the City of New York to Women's National Basketball Association Champions | City of New York
Key to the City of New York Celebration Comes as New York Liberty Wins First-Ever WNBA Championship
City Hosts Ticker Tape Parade, to Light Up City Hall and Municipal Buildings Tonight to Honor National Champions
NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today awarded the Key to the City of New York to members of the New York Liberty, the 2024 Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) champions. This is the first time in the franchise’s history that the team has won the WNBA Championship. Earlier today, Mayor Adams hosted a ticker tape parade that led down the Canyon of Heroes and ended with a ceremony at City Hall, where he presented the members of the Liberty with Keys to the City.
“Keys to the City are reserved for those who know how to bring home the trophy — true champions — like the New York Liberty,” said Mayor Adams. “Every step of the way, the New York Liberty made our city proud, from making franchise history to securing the best record in the league, to inspiring all New Yorkers that our city is full of champions. I am proud to deliver the highest honor I can offer — a Key to the City — to each member of the New York Liberty, who have created a lasting legacy for our city.”
“The Liberty are proud to bring the WNBA championship to New York, and we are honored to accept this Key to the City. We have been chasing this dream since 1997 and would not be here without this incredible team who showed grit and determination all season long, Joe Tsai and Clara Wu Tsai, and each and every Liberty legend who paved the way,” said Keia Clarke, CEO, New York Liberty. “We take great pride in what the Liberty built during this historic season, and to all the Liberty fans celebrating across the city and around the world, we thank you. This championship is for you.”
Today, a Key to the City was presented to each of the New York Liberty’s 12 players: Kennedy Burke, Marquesha Davis, Ivana Dojkić, Leonie Fiebich, Sabrina Ionescu, Jonquel Jones, Betnijah Laney-Hamilton, Nyara Sabally, Jaylyn Sherrod, Breanna Stewart, Kayla Thornton, and Courtney Vandersloot. Keys were additionally presented to Head Coach Sandy Brondello; Assistant Coaches Roneeka Hodges, Olaf Lange, and Zach O’Brien; and Board of Governors Joe and Clara Wu Tsai.
Founded in 1997, the New York Liberty were one of the eight original franchises of the WNBA. Led by Head Coach Sandy Brondello this year, the New York Liberty had the best record in the league this season, winning 32 games and only losing eight. They defeated the Minnesota Lynx in Game 5 of the WNBA finals on Sunday night to win their first-ever championship.
In addition to City Hall, the following city buildings will be lit up seafoam tonight to celebrate the Liberty’s national championship:
Brooklyn Borough Hall: 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
The David N. Dinkins Manhattan Municipal Building: 1 Centre Street, New York, NY 10007
Queens Borough Hall: 120-55 Queens Boulevard, Kew Gardens, NY 11424
Staten Island Borough Hall: 10 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301
The Key to the City of New York was first awarded in 1702 by New York City Mayor Phillip French, when he offered “Freedom of the City” to Viscount Edward Cornbury, governor of New York and New Jersey. By the mid-1800s, it became customary to award the Key to the City of New York as a direct symbol of the city’s wish that a guest feel free to come and go at will. Today, the Key to the City of New York is a beloved symbol of civic recognition and gratitude reserved for individuals whose service to the public and the common good rises to the highest level of achievement.
MAYOR ADAMS ANNOUNCES TICKER TAPE PARADE, CITY HALL, OTHER CITY BUILDINGS TO BE LIT IN SEAFOAM TO CELEBRATE NEW YORK LIBERTY’S WNBA CHAMPIONSHIP
City to Announce Details on Ticker Tape Parade Honoring Championship Winning WNBA Team on Monday, October 21
NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced that the City of New York will hold a ticker tape parade to celebrate the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) champions, the New York Liberty. Additionally, Mayor Adams announced that City Hall and other municipal buildings will be lit up seafoam on Monday night to celebrate the victory. The New York Liberty are an original franchise of the WNBA and tonight’s win marked their first-ever WNBA Championship in 28 seasons. Mayor Adams will release details on a ticker tape parade tomorrow, Monday, October 21.
“From the start of the season to the very last game, the New York Liberty were focused on one singular objective: winning. Tonight, they delivered a historic win — making our great city proud by becoming champions, the first in the franchise’s history,” said Mayor Adams. “At a time when the rest of the country is finally acknowledging the endless talent in our WNBA, we are proud to have New York City bring home the trophy. To our WNBA champions, thank you for being a role model to our city, and showcasing the values of grit, determination, and hard work. Now, we can’t wait to celebrate off the court and throw you the parade you deserve down the Canyon of Heroes!”
“This moment means everything — not only to the Liberty organization, but to our fans and all of New York City,” said Keia Clarke, CEO, New York Liberty. “The Liberty have been chasing this dream since 1997 and after a strategic five-year turnaround, driven by ownership’s vision of rebuilding and regrowing this historic team, we are proud to get back to first and win this championship for New York. We would not be here without our fans whose passion has helped energize this team all season long. We take great pride in what we’ve built with our fans — something special that extends far beyond the basketball court — and this moment is just as much for them as it is for us.”
Led by a 17-point performance from 2024 WNBA Finals MVP Jonquel Jones, the Liberty secured its third win to clinch the title after defeating the Minnesota Lynx in Game 5 tonight of the WNBA finals. The 2024 regular season was a record-breaking year for the New York Liberty, clinching the overall number 1 seed in the WNBA Playoffs for a second time in franchise history, tying a franchise-best finish of 32-8, and becoming the first team in WNBA history with back-to-back 30+ win seasons.
In addition to City Hall, the following city buildings will be lit up seafoam Monday night in honor of the Liberty:
- Brooklyn Borough Hall: 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
- The David N. Dinkins Manhattan Municipal Building: 1 Centre Street, New York, NY 10007
- Queens Borough Hall: 120-55 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, NY 11424
- Staten Island Borough Hall: 10 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301
"New York Liberty Clinch First WNBA Title in Overtime Thriller Against Lynx"
The New York Liberty won their first WNBA championship Sunday, defeating the Minnesota Lynx 67-62 in an overtime thriller to win the series in five games.
Knicks Fall to Celtics in High-Scoring Clash, 109-132 at TD Garden; Pacers Up Next on Friday””Knicks Fall to Celtics in High-Scoring Clash, 109-132 at TD Garden; Pacers Up Next on Friday
Hawks Edge Out Nets in Season Opener Thriller, 120-116
In a nail-biting season opener, the Brooklyn Nets faced off against the Atlanta Hawks, ultimately falling short in a closely contested match, 120-116. The game, held at the Barclays Center, had fans on the edge of their seats as both teams battled fiercely from start to finish.
The night was marked by spectacular performances on both sides, with the Hawks’ precision from beyond the arc proving to be a decisive factor in their victory. Despite a valiant effort from the Nets, including a late fourth-quarter rally that brought them within striking distance of the lead, the Hawks managed to maintain their composure and secure the win.
Key players for the Hawks stepped up in crucial moments, showcasing their depth and versatility. Meanwhile, the Nets demonstrated their resilience and potential, with several standout performances hinting at a promising season ahead.
As the final buzzer sounded, the atmosphere in the Barclays Center was a mix of disappointment and anticipation. Fans of the Brooklyn Nets, while disheartened by the loss, were also encouraged by the team’s tenacity and skill displayed throughout the game.
The Brooklyn Nets will look to rebound from this setback as they prepare for their upcoming fixtures, with the team and its supporters optimistic about the season’s prospects. The Atlanta Hawks, on the other hand, will aim to build on this early success as they continue their campaign in the highly competitive Eastern Conference.
This opening night clash sets the tone for what promises to be an exhilarating season of basketball, with both the Brooklyn Nets and the Atlanta Hawks showing they are teams to watch in the coming months.
New York Islanders, UBS Arena Unveil Dual-Mode Joint Mobile App to Enhance Fan Experience
- PERSONALIZATION: Toggle between New York Islanders or UBS Arena as your default setting, customize the content you want to see, and receive push notifications designed for your interests.
- EXCLUSIVE TEAM CONTENT: Enjoy behind the scenes access to your favorite moments throughout the season with exclusive team content you can’t get anywhere else.
- ISLANDERS UPDATES: Get real-time breaking news and game updates, tune into the Islanders Radio Network with live game broadcasts, and stay up to date with team interviews, game highlights, the team schedule, the team roster, stats, NHL scores, standings, and more.
- UBS ARENA CALENDAR: Check out upcoming events at UBS Arena, browse the full events calendar, and learn about ticket presales.
- PLAN YOUR TRIP: Prepare for your trip to UBS Arena with easy access to all transportation and parking information, interactive maps of the arena, dining guides, and arena policies.
- TICKET CENTRAL & MANAGE TICKETS: Explore all ticket offerings and seamlessly access your Ticketmaster Account Manager to view, sell, or transfer tickets directly through the app.
- COMING SOON – SEASON TICKET MEMBER HUB: Explore the brand-new Islanders Season Ticket Member Hub, the all-in-one destination for UBS Arena Premium Members and Islander Season Ticket Members to find all account and membership information, including how to redeem benefits, special Member news, Islanders Representative contact info, account details, and more.
- ISLANDERS FAN ZONE: Available to all Islanders fans, the Islanders Fan Zone is the destination for reveling in your fandom. Find every Islanders contest and sweepstakes all in one place, play Islanders games and trivia, download special wallpapers, and more.
- ISLES LAB INTEGRATION: Receive special Isles Lab offers and shop the latest collections directly through the app.
- 50/50 INTEGRATION: Get your 50/50 raffle tickets in arena or at home directly through the app and try for your chance to win half of the pot while supporting the local Islanders community.
State Parks Debuts Trail Etiquette Initiative to Enhance Public Safety on Empire State Trail and Others This Fall
Online Messaging Campaign Features Trail Tips to Help Visitors Prevent Accidents and Navigate Busy Trails with Greater Awareness
The Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (State Parks) today announced a new trail etiquette initiative launching to ensure public safety on the agency’s over 2,000 miles of trails statewide, including the 750-mile Empire State Trail and the many locally-managed trails it encompasses. The initiative offers New York residents and visitors contemporary, common-sense tips to safely navigate busy trails being aware of the wide variety of trail users and occasional intersections.
“Regardless of whether you walk, run, ride a bike, operate a wheelchair, walk a leashed pet, push a stroller, or cross-country ski, New York State Parks wants to ensure all trailgoers are aware of their surroundings and share our beloved trails with courtesy and safety in mind,” said New York State Parks Commissioner Pro Tempore Randy Simons. “We all want to get outside and enjoy all that New York has to offer, and small actions can mean the difference between a memorable fall day on the trail or a trip to urgent care.”
State Parks’ new trail etiquette initiative consists of four main principles:
Wear a helmet: All cyclists should wear a properly sized bike helmet, with the strap buckled. Under New York State law, those under age 14 are required to wear an appropriate helmet
Be courteous and aware: Because the trail is enjoyed by a variety of users, ages and abilities, visitors should be aware of the activity around them.
All users, especially groups and those with children, should stay to the right and maintain a clear path for passing.
Cyclists must slow down for other trail users, use a bell or call out to alert others, and pass safely on the left.
When stopping or taking a break, move to the side and avoid blocking the trail.
Leashed dogs can make sudden movements and startle other trail users. Dog walkers must keep their pet under control at all times.
See and be seen: Cyclists are encouraged to ride defensively. Stopping at all intersections to check for oncoming traffic before safely crossing is advised.
Follow electric bike rules: Electric-assist bicycles, or e-bikes, are legal to use across the state. However, government entities and trail owners can place restrictions on the types and places they may be used. In most locations e-scooters, one-wheels, and higher-speed e-bikes are prohibited. On road, Class I and Class II e-bikes are permitted where the posted speed is 30 mph or less. It is the responsibility of the rider to know where and what types of e-bikes are allowed and to operate them in a safe manner.
The Empire Trail welcomes bicyclists and walkers of all ages and abilities to experience the Empire State’s urban centers, village main streets, rural communities, and diverse history, from New York City through the Hudson River Valley, west to Buffalo along the Erie Canal, and north to the Champlain Valley and Adirondacks.
New York State Canal Corporation Director Brian U. Stratton said, “The Erie and Champlain Canalway Trails are multi-use trails that offer walkers, joggers, and cyclists an incredible way to exercise and recreate across the Upstate New York. For the safety of all trail users, I encourage everyone to follow the guiding principles set forth in this new initiative as it will ensure a more enjoyable experience for all.”
Parks & Trails New York Executive Director Paul Steely White said, “We need your help keeping greenway trails safe and accessible for all New Yorkers–cyclists and pedestrians alike. Safe trails require more than just clear pathways and signage, they are built on the cooperation and understanding of each and every individual on the trail. Stay safe and keep others safe by following trailway rules and always yielding to those around you.”
“Making History” Symposium to Be Held at Philipse Manor Hall
Panel Discussions to Highlight New York State’s Vital Role in American Revolution, Historic Efforts to End Slavery, and Important Work to Preserve State History Through the National Register | |
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) is pleased to announce, “Making History: Revolution, Abolition, and Preservation in New York State,” an all-day symposium held on Saturday, November 16, 2024, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site (29 Warburton Ave., Yonkers, NY) and simulcast online. This program will highlight the work of the Division for Historic Preservation, including New York State Historic Sites, the Bureau of Historic Sites, and the State Historic Preservation Office on New York State’s Our Whole History initiative. The symposium will include panel discussions on the state’s research and plans for the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War; the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved people in New York (1626-2026) and the 200th anniversary of the abolition of legal slavery in New York State (1827-2027); and community preservation services and opportunities, including information on the State and National Registers of Historic Places. “Making History” is part of the New York State Parks Centennial celebrations. “Those invested in New York State history, interpretation and museum studies, and community preservation should not miss ‘Making History,’ a day of education and discussion curated by State Parks’ phenomenal Division for Historic Preservation staff,” said New York State Parks Commissioner Pro Tempore Randy Simons. “Our 2024 Centennial year marks the beginning of a new era of New York State Parks where we look to the future and ensure that we support the next generation of park and historic site staff and visitors. Events like this are fully aligned with that mission.” The panel “Revolution & Our Whole History” will discuss state plans for the 250th anniversary and highlight new research and perspectives from state historic sites around the state. Speakers include Sarah Wassberg Johnson of Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site, who will discuss the Philipsburgh Proclamation, Black Loyalists, and the Westchester neutral zone; and Ian Mumpton of Johnson Hall State Historic Site, who will discuss the role of Sir William Johnson and the Brant family in the Revolution. The panel “Abolition & Our Whole History” will discuss slavery in colonial New York, gradual emancipation and the 1827 abolition of legal slavery in New York, and statewide projects surrounding the anniversary. Speakers include Michael Lord of Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site, who will discuss slavery and slave laws in colonial New York; Jessica Serfilippi of Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site, who will discuss recent research on slavery at Schuyler Mansion; and Lavada Nahon, Interpreter of African American History for New York State, who will discuss legislation leading up to and the impact of abolition in New York as well as Our Whole History projects around Abolition throughout the state. For “Preservation & Our Whole History,” Cordell Reaves, Historic Preservation Programs Coordinator, and Leslie Krupa, Historic Preservation Program Analyst, will discuss efforts to reassess old and assess new National Register nominations as part of the Our Whole History initiative, as well as community programs of the State Historic Preservation Office. Each panel discussion will include time for audience Q&A. The symposium will end with a special tour, “Our Whole History & Philipse Manor Hall,” where attendees can tour the museum exhibits and discuss with staff the thought process, research, and design process behind the new exhibits, programs, and interpretation at Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site. “Making History: Revolution, Abolition, and Preservation in New York State” is open to the public. In-person seating is limited, and tickets are required. Tickets are $40 per person and include refreshments and lunch as well as admission to Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site. “Making History” will be simulcast via WebEx. Virtual access is free, but registration is required. To learn more, and to register, visit www.philipsemanorhall.com/ About Our Whole History The Our Whole History initiative seeks to reveal and share historically undertold stories of ordinary and extraordinary New Yorkers across the state. By providing multiple perspectives on historic places and events, New York State Historic Sites and Parks encourage the general public to take a deeper look at our state’s history, learn more about the people who got us where we are today, and embrace the heritage of all New Yorkers. The Our Whole History initiative dates back as early as the 1980s, when the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) sought to expand and deepen the public’s understanding of New York State history, including the construction and opening of Ganondagan State Historic Site. Codified in a State of the State address in 2020, Our Whole History has since been the driving force behind several recent and upcoming projects for OPRHP, including the renovation of Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site, which reopened in 2022; the opening of new exhibits at Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site, Clermont State Historic Site, and Crailo State Historic Site; the acquisition and opening of new state parks, including Sojourner Truth State Park; the renovation of existing state parks, such as the Shirley Chisholm State Park and Marsha P. Johnson State Park; and statewide endeavors like the Revolutionary War 250 kiosk project. About Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site, located at 29 Warburton Ave., Yonkers, NY, 10701, is open for tours Wednesdays through Sundays, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Dating back to the 1680s, Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site sits near the confluence of the Nepperhan (Saw Mill) and Hudson Rivers, the site of a Munsee Lunaape village. Used by four generations of the Philipse family and worked by the people they enslaved as well as European tenant farmers, the Philipse Manor was once over 200,000 acres and helped make the Philipse family the richest in New York. Loyalists during the American Revolution, they fled to England and the Hall was owned by several individuals before becoming the Yonkers Village Hall and later Yonkers City Hall. When a new City Hall was built in the early 20th century, the house was preserved through the generosity of Eva Smith Cochran and donated to New York State to serve as a historic site. Today, Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site provides visitors with a balanced approach to interpreting the lives of Indigenous, European, and African people to understand the complex relationships that took place at the Manor from the earliest days of the Dutch Colony of New Netherland to the American Revolution and beyond. Learn more at Philipse Manor Hall’s Virtual Wing at www.philipsemanorhall.com. The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation oversees more than 250 parks, historic sites, recreational trails, golf courses, boat launches and more, which saw a record 84 million visits in 2023. For more information on any of these recreation areas, visit parks.ny.gov, download the free NY State Parks Explorer app or call 518.474.0456. Join us in celebrating our Centennial throughout 2024, and connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), and the OPRHP Blog. |
New York State Lights Landmarks and Bridges to Mark Year-Out Celebration for the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage State Park
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation today announced that New York State bridges and landmarks will be lit in red, white and blue on Tuesday evening, October 8, to mark the year-out celebration to the 2025 Ryder Cup. The matches between Team USA and Team Europe will be played at Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale on Long Island September 23-28, 2025.
“New York State is proudly counting down to the 45th Ryder Cup matches set to take place at Bethpage State Park’s renowned Black Course,” said State Parks Commissioner Pro Tempore Randy Simons. “It is a true honor for us to host the 2025 Ryder Cup and the tens of thousands of fans expected to attend from around the world. Our hardworking and talented Parks team has been collaborating closely with the PGA of America to ensure that ‘The People’s Country Club’ shines on the world stage. This will undoubtedly be the largest event in the history of golf, and we are committed to showcasing the very best of our state park as the global spotlight turns to Bethpage Black over the next year.”
Empire State Development President, CEO and Commissioner Hope Knight said, “The Black Course at Bethpage State Park has long been one of golf’s toughest tests, and the 2025 Ryder Cup will be no exception. New York State will be ready as golf fans from across America and around the world descend on Long Island, while millions more at home watch world-class golf competition, coupled with the bucolic sights and sounds from the surrounding communities. We’re excited to start the countdown and welcome a global audience as only New York State can.”
PGA of America President John Lindert said, “All of us at the PGA of America could not be more excited for the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage State Park. The combination of golf’s greatest team event and the world-renowned Black course will undoubtedly produce one of the greatest weeks in the history of our game. We are deeply appreciative to New York State and New York State Parks for their ongoing support as we prepare for next September.”
The bridges and landmarks to be lit in recognition of Team USA and the Ryder Cup Year-Out Celebration include:
One World Trade Center
Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge
Kosciuszko Bridge
The H. Carl McCall SUNY Building
State Education Building
Alfred E. Smith State Office Building
Empire State Plaza
State Fairgrounds – Main Gate & Expo Center
The “Franklin D. Roosevelt” Mid-Hudson Bridge
Albany International Airport Gateway
MTA LIRR – East End Gateway at Penn Station
Moynihan Train Hall
Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park
Niagara Falls State Park
The Ryder Cup is a globally televised event, consisting of five matches contested over three days between two 12-member teams from the United States and Europe. The competition alternates host sites every two years between American and European venues.
The Black Course, one of five 18-hole courses now at Bethpage State Park, opened for play in 1936. It was designed by legendary architect A.W. Tillinghast, who was a guest at an exploratory meeting of The PGA of America in January 1916 in New York City. Bethpage Black will host the Ryder Cup for the very first time in 2025 joining Oak Hill Country Club as the only New York courses to host a Ryder Cup.
New Tool for Local Trail Advocates Will Help Expand New York’s Growing Greenway Trail Network
Parks & Trails New York (PTNY) and the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) release a new handbook to guide grassroots advocates through the steps to take the vision for a new multi-use path from concept to reality.
ALBANY, NY (Jan. 16) – PTNY and OPRHP today announced the release of the Trails Across New York: A Grassroots Guide to Developing Greenway Trails. The new resource provides detailed information to support Greenway trails development in communities around the state. The steps outlined in the guide provide a high-level overview of the various aspects of trail development from initial concept to construction, as well as how participation from a broad range of individuals, agencies, organizations, and landowners will factor in throughout the process.
Greenway trails are shared-use paths that can be used by persons of all ages for healthy, fun recreation. As long linear corridors, they also provide unique transportation opportunities. Often born from old rail lines and canal towpaths, greenway trails are popular local resources and provide essential public health infrastructure for active recreation and connection to nature. Greenway trails are also valuable tourism generators, attracting thousands of new visitors to New York State each year, especially since the opening of the increasingly popular 750-mile Empire State Trail.
Already home to over two thousand miles of greenway trails, New York State has the potential to nearly double its greenway trail network, thereby expanding opportunities for outdoor recreation and active transportation to millions of New Yorkers. These trails, however, will only come to fruition with the vision and dedication of local advocates, municipal leaders, and planners who recognize the benefits of developing a trail in their community and work devotedly to make it happen.
The trail development process can be challenging even for the most experienced community organizers. The 2021 Statewide Greenway Trails Plan identified the need to provide resources for local advocates to navigate the process for future trail development opportunities. To address this gap, Trails Across New York: A Grassroots Guide to Developing Greenway Trails aims to inspire creativity and enthusiasm among various stakeholder groups about the important role that local residents and stakeholders can play in this process.
The new guide walks advocates and trail planners through the steps needed to see a greenway trail to completion. The first section outlines the necessary steps to get a project started: from identifying the corridor to cultivating a vision that will help inspire engagement and public support, eventually leading to buy-in from state and/or local government. The second section walks through the trail planning and development process, including conducting a feasibility study for a trail, securing the corridor through purchase or easements, identifying grant funding opportunities, and finally getting the project designed, permitted and built. Finally, the guide provides guidance for maximizing the ongoing visitation and value of local trails once they are built.
The full Trails Across New York: A Grassroots Guide to Developing Greenway Trails can be found at ptny.org/greenwaytrails.
“Greenway trails have the power to transform our environment, economy, and communities. We hope that this guide makes the greenway trail development process more transparent so that local advocates have a clear path to follow. Whether it’s an abandoned railroad, canal towpath, neglected waterfront or highway shoulder, we hope for more advocates to be ready to transform these corridors into beloved community assets.” said Paul Steely White, Executive Director of Parks & Trails New York.
“Greenway Trails offer New York residents and visitors the opportunity to explore our state’s incredible scenery and diverse communities. There’s great potential to expand our greenway recreational network throughout New York with the help of community advocates and grassroots partners. I’m excited to make this guide available to help navigate the development process and make more greenway trails a reality,” said State Parks Commissioner Erik Kulleseid.
New York State Parks Celebrates Native American Heritage Month with New Staff Initiatives and Special Programming
Kim Hill, New OPRHP Interpreter of Native American History, has been Integral in Identifying and Activating Opportunities for Agency’s Our Whole History Initiative
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) is pleased to announce that environmental educator and interpreter Yehehnakwáhstha? (pronounced yeh-heh-naw-gwaw-staw) Kim Hill has joined the Bureau of Historic Sites staff as Interpreter of Native American History. Hill, Tuscarora Beaver Clan, is from the Tuscarora Nation, near Niagara Falls, New York.
Since her arrival in late 2022, Ms. Hill has worked closely with staff throughout the agency to establish a framework for incorporating Indigenous stories into historic interpretation and contemporary programming by initiating educational opportunities, providing guidance on projects, and creating a network of content experts. From reviewing and writing materials for exhibitions to hosting workshops and working with Indigenous artists to create interpretive illustrations, she is helping projects of all sizes reflect Our Whole History priorities and building the groundwork for sustainable successes.
Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Commissioner Erik Kulleseid said, “As we continue to activate the agency’s Our Whole History initiative, it is essential that we develop authentic ways to incorporate Indigenous stories into the interpretive work happening at our historic sites and parks. Kim has already been a tremendous resource and we value the passion and perspective she brings to all her projects.”
“I am excited to have the opportunity to be the representation I wish I had as a child growing up on the reservation,” Native American History interpreter Kim Hill said. “I also look forward to illuminating the vast Indigenous perspectives and ways of knowing at all our historic sites and parks.”
- Hill’s passion for interpretation, parks, and increasing the visibility of Native American communities and cultures through representation and education will support OPRHP efforts to share a more complete and inclusive history with the public through the agency’s Our Whole History initiative. Her priorities will focus on creating Indigenous educational guides, developing interpretive materials, and providing guidelines around Indigenous resources, perspectives, and consultations. Hill has already made an impact system-wide, by connecting Parks staff with local Indigenous speakers and performers in their regions. Some of her current projects include facilitating the first Indigenous Cultural Awareness Workshops across the state and Johnson Hall State Historic Site’s new visitor center exhibit.
More about Kim Hill: Hill brings a decade of experience of work and thought on the intersections of park systems, education, and Indigeneity. She is a graduate in Natural Resources Management from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, where she was a Fellow in the Indigenous Environmental Leaders for the Future program. She also completed the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program at Northern Arizona University. During her studies, she had the opportunity to study, work, and lead with Indigenous scholars and mentors. Prior to joining OPRHP, Hill traveled throughout New York as an Environmental Educator with the Student Conservation Association. She taught at state parks and Department of Environmental Conservation campgrounds and she was later headquartered at Saratoga Spa State Park. Throughout her career, Hill has continued to learn and share her culture, history, and traditions both on and off the reservation.
More about Ganondagan State Historic Site: Spanning 569 acres, Ganondagan (ga·NON·da·gan) is the original site of a 17th century Seneca town, that existed there peacefully more than 350 years ago. The culture, art, agriculture, and government of the Seneca people influenced our modern understanding of equality, democratic government, women’s rights, ecology and natural foods. Ganondagan’s full-size, Seneca Bark Longhouse is fully furnished to reflect a typical Seneca family from the late 1600’s, complete with reproductions of 17th century Seneca objects and colonial-era trade goods. The Seneca Art & Culture Center is a 17,300-square-foot center that tells the story of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) contributions to art, culture, and society. The grounds surrounding the center include two signed interpretive trails that educate visitors about the significance of plant life, Haudenosaunee culture, and history.
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation oversees more than 250 parks, historic sites, recreational trails, golf courses, boat launches and more, which saw a record 79.5 million visits in 2022. For more information on any of these recreation areas, visit parks.ny.gov, download the free NY State Parks Explorer mobile app or call 518.474.0456. Joins us in celebrating our Centennial throughout 2024, and connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, X, and the OPRHP Blog.
State Parks Seeks Partnerships to Renew York Hall in Nissequogue River State Park
Preservation and new programing sought for historic theater building
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (State Parks) today issued a request for proposals (RFP) seeking a potential private and/or not-for-profit partner to rehabilitate, restore and operate the historic York Hall in Nissequogue River State Park as a performance space or similar park-appropriate venue.
“There is potential for a unique artistic and cultural partnership to create vital community space at Nissequogue River State Park,” State Parks Commissioner Erik Kulleseid said. “State Parks is seeking creative ideas to bring new life to York Hall.”
The RFP seeks proposals for private capital investment and preferred end uses for York Hall to include performing arts, community theater, and related programming consistent with the Suffolk County park’s setting and the park master plan. The scope of this opportunity includes a private partner’s operation and maintenance of York Hall and management of a compatible program. Proposals must demonstrate a respondent’s relevant experience, expertise, program alignment, and the financial resources necessary to fund the design, preservation, rehabilitation, and construction, and to successfully operate the venue in collaboration with State Parks.
Proposals are due by December 20, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. The RFP will be available on the New York State Contract Reporter website. Visit https://www.nyscr.ny.gov and search for X001461.
State Parks would award a lease or license to the business or organization that would provide the greatest public benefit and financial value to the park. State Parks has authority to contract for a term up to 40 years, in consideration of a private capital investment exceeding $1 million provided it is sufficient to comply with the terms of the RFP and complete and operate the improvements.
Built between 1930 and 1932, the Colonial Revival-style theatre building was conceived to function as a mixed-use facility providing theatre, auditorium, sports, and social space for the Kings Park Psychiatric Center and those it served. The building was also used by the outlying Kings Park community throughout the course of its active life.
Nissequogue River State Park is located on the north shore of Long Island on the former campus of the Kings Park Psychiatric Center. It features variety of habitats including tidal and freshwater wetlands and hardwood forests provide habitat to a variety of shore birds, reptiles, and amphibians. The Greenbelt Trail, for walking and hiking, parallels the Nissequogue River and provides scenic views of the river and the Long Island Sound from the top of the bluffs. The park also has athletic fields, a canoe and kayak launch, fishing, bird watching, and environmental education programs.
Third Annual ‘City of Forest Day’ Encourages New Yorkers to Appreciate, Enjoy, and Care for Trees in NYC
With over 80 events, this city-wide day of action, education and fun celebrates and stewards our city’s vital trees across all five boroughs
New York, NY – Today, Forest for All NYC, in partnership with Parks and Open Space Partners NYC and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, celebrates the third-annual City of Forest Day. Today’s day of action and celebration brings New Yorkers together across all five boroughs to learn about the benefits of our urban forest and encourages participation in the ongoing stewardship of trees across the city. Event hosts have put together engaging programs that invite New Yorkers to learn about, care for, and celebrate trees and their role as the “lungs” of our city.
This year, there are more than 80 events across all five boroughs, including street tree care and a sunrise hike on Staten Island, tree planting at the New York Botanical Garden, forest restoration at Ewen Park in the Bronx and Idlewild Park in Queens, a guided tree and urban design walk in downtown Brooklyn, and collaborations with different library branches across the city. Additionally, events are being held in Polish, Bangla, Urdu, and Spanish and over 40 are family-friendly!
In the past two years since the inaugural City of Forest Day, New Yorkers have seen a wave of support for the maintenance and investment in our tree canopy, equitably. Last fall, the NYC Council unanimously passed two vital pieces of legislation that collectively will contribute to a greener, healthier, more just, resilient New York City. Local Law 148 mandated New York City’s first citywide urban forest plan as well as ongoing tree canopy monitoring. Planning for the urban forest plan is underway by the Adams administration with a final plan due by summer 2025. Local Law 135 amended the City Charter to include the long overdue consideration of trees and tree canopy in the City’s long-term planning. These notable achievements will continue to equitably improve and expand the NYC urban forest.
“What a thrill to see City of Forest Day grow with each year,” said Bill Ulfelder, New York Executive Director for The Nature Conservancy, Lead Convener of Forest for All NYC. “This citywide day of celebration reminds us that the urban forest is more than just the trees, it also includes everything that supports them, from street tree beds to the workers and volunteers that help keep it in good condition. Whether you are getting your hands dirty with some tree care or connecting with the forest through other activities, City of Forest Day reminds us that planting new trees is important, but so is caring for them over time. Stewardship and public engagement, in combination with municipal resources and planning, help ensure the future of the urban forest.”
“Fostering stewardship in New York City’s urban forest is an essential part of creating a vibrant and thriving urban park system,” said NYC Department of Parks & Recreation Commissioner Sue Donoghue. “This City of Forest Day, we invite New Yorkers to come out and participate in the vital work of caring for this part of our city’s living infrastructure. With hikes and walks in every borough, as well as forest restoration workshops and plant life identification courses, there are so many ways to get involved in this exciting day of stewardship. NYC Parks is proud to partner with Forest For All NYC to spread awareness and take action to keep New York City healthier, safer, and more resilient.”
“City of Forest Day continues to be a staple within New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and complements Governor Kathy Hochul’s 25 million tree planting goal campaign which encourages New Yorkers to join the state in planting trees to support the climate,” said DEC Acting Regional Director Rodney Rivera. “Thanks to the dedication of DEC’s Environmental Educators, New York City residents will learn about the importance of our urban forest, while participating in crafting, invasive plant removal and educational hikes. We hope to see you at 1 of the 5 different events team DEC will be hosting in the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island.”
“New York City’s urban forest, including Prospect Park’s 30,000 trees, is an essential community resource and vital habitat for wildlife,” says Prospect Park Alliance President, Morgan Monaco. “In the face of climate change, it is more essential than ever to both celebrate our urban forest and do our part to sustain our hardworking city trees, which improve our air quality, cool our earth and make our communities happier and healthier. Prospect Park Alliance is excited to take part in the third annual City of Forest Day with volunteer opportunities, woodland walks, a tour of Brooklyn’s last remaining forest and family-friendly nature activities for our community.”
“Our urban tree canopy plays a huge part in making New York City cooler, cleaner, and more livable for people and wildlife alike. But not every neighborhood has equitable access to the benefits that trees provide. That’s why Trees New York is especially proud this year to be supporting partner groups in designated Environmental Justice Communities with tools, mulch, and other supplies to steward trees on City of Forest Day. We are thrilled to join so many Forest For All NYC members in caring for trees across all five boroughs on City of Forest Day!” says Nelson Villarrubia, Executive Director of Trees New York.
DEC REMINDS OUTDOOR ENTHUSIASTS TO SHARE THE WOODS SAFELY THIS SEASON
New York City FC can today confirm that their final two home matches of the MLS Regular Season are scheduled to take place at Red Bull Arena. Due to the MLB Playoffs schedule, both Yankee Stadium and Citi Field are currently unavailable.
Additionally, New York City FC’s match against Nashville SC, originally scheduled for Saturday, October 5, has been moved to Sunday, October 6 at 4pm ET.
In the event Citi Field or Yankee Stadium become available, the Club will make every effort to play these matches at one of these two venues.
Wednesday, October 2
New York City FC vs. FC Cincinnati
Red Bull Arena
7:30pm ET kickoff
Sunday, October 6
New York City FC vs. Nashville SC
Red Bull Arena
4pm ET kickoff
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Stadium Update: “The Cube,” Coming 2027
New York City FC is excited to share new renderings and a short fly-through video of the main entrance for our proposed stadium project in Queens! We believe our stadium’s entrance, “The Cube,” will be the most dynamic entrance of any MLS stadium. Click here to see the new renderings and video! As the main entrance to our stadium and the first thing you’ll see as you arrive at the stadium from the south, The Cube will be integral to the matchday experience. We’re confident that it will give our fans a real sense of pride and its uniqueness will naturally draw people in. The Cube also serves as a symbol, representing two things. First, the cube represents stability and permanence; this is our home and we’re here to stay. Second, its equal dimensions will represent equality and fair play – two values that are at the heart of our club. Standing at over 7 stories high, The Cube will be an immersive experience, lined with 11,000+ square feet of LEDs. It will be an everlasting, experiential installation capable of projecting incredible video, photography, and graphic elements. To secure your spot in New York City FC’s new proposed stadium, sign up for a membership today! |
arlier today, New York City FC’s stadium project reached a significant milestone: the New York City Council voted to approve the construction of the next phase of the Willets Point development project, including our stadium! Following today’s vote, the only step left to complete the ULURP process is for Mayor Adams to review and sign off on the project, which is expected in the coming days.
This is a long-awaited moment in our club’s history. New York City FC’s new stadium will be the first-ever soccer-specific stadium in New York City, opening in 2027 in Willets Point, Queens. Click here to sign up to get the latest news about New York City’s new stadium and to find out how to become a member and gain priority to reserve your seat in the future!
New York City FC
| New York City Football Club fans, the first look at your new planned STADIUM is finally here. Yesterday, NYCFC presented early renderings of the proposed Willets Point project. Inclusive of that project is what one day will be the best soccer-specific stadium in North America. This public-private partnership with the City of New York will not only include New York City’s first-ever soccer-specific stadium, but it will also feature:
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'It's going to sting for a while': Yanks lament lack of World Series execution
Do-Hyoung Park
NEW YORK — Ultimately, the story of the final night of the New York Yankees’ 2024 season — and, really, a subplot of their year as a whole — was the number of free outs and free bases they gave away, seemingly, in all phases of the game.
That’s what brought it all crashing down in a nightmare fifth inning of Game 5 of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday night.
The Dodgers got their ring. Who needs one the most in 2025?
And execution is what sealed their fate in the eighth.
For all the bombastic homers that thrilled the Bronx crowd early in the night and the utter chaos of misplays and misfortune that ensued for the Yankees to blow a five-run lead, they were still in position to win the game late, with the contest in the hands of their leverage relievers. And one last time, free bases haunted Tommy Kahnle and Luke Weaver in the 7-6, series-clinching and season-ending loss.
“For it to all crash like that, it’s just … I’ll be thinking about this for a long time, I can tell you that,” Kahnle said. “It just sucks that maybe I could have done something differently. That’s what’s going to be rolling around in my head for a long time. I just feel like there was definitely more we could have done.”
Left with bitter taste, five things Yanks need to do to get back here
This wasn’t the mayhem of the killer fifth inning, when two errors and a missed out at first base gave the Dodgers’ lineup a whopping three extra outs to turn the seeming formality of another cross-country flight to the West Coast into one final heavyweight showdown.
But there were, again, the free bases. A walk to No. 8 hitter Will Smith to load the bases, a freak catcher’s interference — the first in a Fall Classic since Game 3 of the 1982 World Series — that handed a seemingly compromised Shohei Ohtani a free jog to first base ahead of the Dodgers’ other two all-world MVPs.
Aaron Boone discusses WS Game 5 loss, end of season
Oct 31, 2024 · 5:52
Aaron Boone discusses WS Game 5 loss, end of season
With two sacrifice flies in the inning, advantage turned again to disadvantage, with Los Angeles dealing New York one final, decisive answer.
“You’re trying to keep the ball out of the air, but you’re facing three of the best hitters in the world,” Weaver said. “You’re trying to make sure you’re limiting the damage. Sometimes, you don’t get on the right end of it, and you just tip your cap to some hitters who executed on fundamental baseball.”
That’s it, really: The Dodgers executed when it mattered, and the Yankees didn’t.
With New York nursing a 6-5 lead in the eighth, Kiké Hernández led off against Kahnle with a single, Tommy Edman followed with a grounder to deep short corralled by Anthony Volpe on a dive but still good for an infield single, and Smith took a four-pitch walk to load the bases with none out.
Gavin Lux’s game-tying sac fly
Oct 30, 2024 · 0:24
Gavin Lux’s game-tying sac fly
“I really felt like I was clicking pretty good for those first few pitches, and then after that, it just kind of almost snowballed on me,” Kahnle said. “I lost command, and the next thing I know, the inning gets away from us.”
Gavin Lux battled Weaver for six pitches and ended up lifting a two-strike fastball to deep left-center to tie the game. Two pitches later, Mookie Betts put an easy swing on a first-pitch fastball to put the Dodgers on top for good.
“Don’t strike out,” Betts said of his approach at the plate. “Put one in play right there; you never know what’s going to happen. I had a little talk with Freddie [Freeman] right before that because I didn’t know what to do. Freddie just said, ‘Trust your gut,’ so I went up there and just put it in play.”
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Mookie Betts’ go-ahead sacrifice fly
Oct 30, 2024 · 0:29
Mookie Betts’ go-ahead sacrifice fly
The Dodgers clearly got help from that catcher’s interference, too, on the lone pitch between those two sacrifice flies.
Ohtani had been 0-for-4 entering that final plate appearance, and 2-for-19 in the World Series, with his top hand (the extension of the left shoulder that had sustained a subluxation in Game 2) coming off the bat on many of his follow-throughs as he noticeably winced.
But on the first pitch of that battle against Weaver, the head of his bat was ruled to have clipped the mitt of Yankees catcher Austin Wells — as confirmed by a quick replay review, much to the displeasure and confusion of the 49,263 at Yankee Stadium.
The Yankees discuss the World Series loss
Oct 31, 2024 · 3:29
The Yankees discuss the World Series loss
Clearly, the possibility of the first Fall Classic catcher’s interference in 42 years hadn’t even crossed Weaver’s mind — and had that plate appearance led to a second out in the inning, a sacrifice fly wouldn’t have been good enough from Betts.
“He’s obviously got a long swing, so with the changeup kind of running away, it was kind of a perfect storm,” Weaver said. “Wells is trying to be able to stay through the ball, and Shohei is just trying to cover and do a job up there. Sometimes, it’s just kind of awkward and weird.”
Shohei Ohtani reaches on catcher’s interference in Game 5 of the 2024 World Series (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Shohei Ohtani reaches on catcher’s interference in Game 5 of the 2024 World Series (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Add that to the what-ifs the Yankees will replay in their heads as they digest this through a long offseason.
Ohtani’s trip to first came of an unusual happenstance, perhaps, but it was also fitting on a night when the Yankees un-executed their way out of that brutal fifth inning and also added, of all things, a mound disengagement violation balk, not to mention throwing, fielding and mental errors at critical points in the game.
Aaron Judge on emotions of World Series loss, more
Oct 31, 2024 · 5:06
Aaron Judge on emotions of World Series loss, more
All those things, in aggregate over two innings, cost them a shot at forcing Game 6 — and a chance to continue their chase for a title.
“It’s going to sting for a while,” Kahnle said. “We’re going to look back on it and see that those are the plays that we can clean up, and we’re going to move on. It’s part of the game. It stings that you see it all the time, and it just happened to happen to us. It sucks. It does, big time.”
After 'emptying the tank' in World Series, Cole left empty-handed
Do-Hyoung Park
NEW YORK — Somewhere down the line — hopefully, many years down the line — when Gerrit Cole finally hangs up the spikes and closes the book on an illustrious career, let the first chapter of the New York ace’s Fall Classic legacy in pinstripes not be defined by the notion that his team dropped both games he started.
For in this age of short starts and World Series bullpen games, Cole twice showed the unabashed, undeterred, unwavering power of a big-game bulldog.
But in both Game 1 and Game 5, it still wasn’t enough.
Resilient to the end, Yankees’ 2024 title hopes fade in Game 5
Twice in this Fall Classic, Cole pitched into the seventh inning, responsible for one earned run across those two starts. He pitched through an unbelievable five unearned runs in Los Angeles’ five-run game-tying rally in the fifth inning of the Yanks’ 7-6, season-ending loss in Game 5 to match the most unearned runs allowed in an outing in World Series history — but kept going, and going, willing himself to set the tone, and set it again after that.
“I gave it everything I had,” Cole said, his voice faltering. “I’ll be frustrated — like, every time you have a tough loss, you use it to motivate you. But it’s all out there. There’s nothing a whole lot more that I could do. I gave it everything I had.”
Cole’s efforts made him only the second active pitcher with four World Series starts of six or more innings, a very short list that previously featured only Justin Verlander.
Wednesday night, he took a brutal path to get there.
The Yankees discuss the World Series loss
Oct 31, 2024 · 3:29
The Yankees discuss the World Series loss
It’s one thing to seemingly empty the tank with 38 pitches in the fifth inning to get not three, not four, not five … but six outs in that frame against this Dodgers lineup while being socked with the gut punch of losing a seemingly insurmountable lead in a do-or-die game, thanks in large part to two critical errors behind him.
To then come out for more in the sixth inning?
“He kept grinding, kept going,” reliever Tommy Kahnle said. “He gave us everything he had. Hats off to him, man. He was incredible tonight.”
Gerrit Cole’s six strikeouts
Oct 30, 2024 · 2:38
Gerrit Cole’s six strikeouts
To then come back out for even more in the seventh inning, facing two of the best hitters on the planet for a fourth time through the order with his pitch count soaring into the triple digits?
“It’s a testament to him,” reliever Luke Weaver said. “It’s a testament to his willpower, his motivation, emptying the tank, so to speak. You can’t ask for any more than what he did.”
As the Yankees jumped out to a 5-0 lead through three innings with stirring homers by Aaron Judge, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Giancarlo Stanton that brought the 49,263 fans at Yankee Stadium to an ear-splitting fever pitch, Cole rode that continued momentum from the Yanks’ offensive outburst in Game 4 and the raucous energy of his home crowd to retire 12 of the first 14 Dodger batters without allowing a hit through four innings.
Then, chaos.
Kiké Hernández led off that nightmarish fifth inning with a solid single to right field, breaking up the no-hit bid. Aaron Judge dropped a routine fly ball in center field for his first career error as a Major League center fielder. When Will Smith chopped a grounder to short, AL Gold Glove finalist Anthony Volpe spiked a throw to third for another error, loading the bases.
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Tommy Edman reaches first base on an error
Oct 31, 2024 · 0:29
Tommy Edman reaches first base on an error
Still, Cole battled, striking out Gavin Lux. That should have been his third out of the inning.
He plunged onward, overwhelming Shohei Ohtani on four pitches for another strikeout, bringing him to the cusp of escape. That would have been his fourth out.
“I thought he was in complete command of his emotions — or just of his nerves and the calm he had out there, which showed up right away in his command of all his pitches,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “I mean, he was dotting it and featuring everything.”
Aaron Boone discusses WS Game 5 loss, end of season
Oct 31, 2024 · 5:52
Aaron Boone discusses WS Game 5 loss, end of season
Cole wasn’t without fault in the Dodgers’ rally, as the grounder to first he induced off the bat of Mookie Betts caught first baseman Anthony Rizzo off-balance and also found Cole not in position to cover first for an RBI infield single. That might have been a fifth out.
That, it turned out, was the breaking point.
“It’s super tough,” Cole said. “Super tough. I mean, at that point, I’m just, like — I just keep making pitches. I just did. I kept making pitches. I was totally exhausted. But there’s just no quit in that situation. You’ve got to just keep pressing forward.”
‘It’s going to sting for a while’: Yanks lament lack of World Series execution
Mookie Betts’ RBI single
Oct 30, 2024 · 0:30
Mookie Betts’ RBI single
World Series MVP Freddie Freeman continued his onslaught with a two-run double, and Teoscar Hernández’s two-run single tied the game. Two batters later, Kiké Hernández finally, mercifully grounded out to end the threat. Six outs that inning, perhaps.
“In this game, when you’re given extra outs, you’ve got to capitalize,” Freeman said. “That’s what we were able to do in that inning.”
Anthony Rizzo on Yankees’ Game 5 loss, end of season
Oct 31, 2024 · 1:42
Anthony Rizzo on Yankees’ Game 5 loss, end of season
But even with a pitch count at 87 coming out of that ordeal, Cole stepped right back out of that dugout for the sixth, overwhelming five more batters before a two-out walk in the seventh finally coaxed him off the mound after he threw a season-high 108 pitches.
In a different world, that might well have been a legacy-defining sequence to add to his other triumph that might have lived on in Yankee lore in Game 1, when he defended a 2-1 lead in the sixth inning at Dodger Stadium by dispatching the Dodgers’ three MVPs — Ohtani, Betts and Freeman — to pitch around a leadoff double, long before Freeman wrote his own legacy with a walk-off grand slam in extras.
But in this world, it doesn’t ease Cole’s sting of defeat one bit.
“This is, like, as bad as it gets,” Cole said. “It’s the worst feeling that you can have, especially since you have to keep, sometimes, willing yourself to believe and give yourself a chance. You just keep pushing, keep pushing, and ultimately, we came up short. It just … it’s brutal.”
Resilient to the end, Yankees' 2024 title hopes fade in Game 5
Bryan Hoch
NEW YORK — It was finally beginning to look like the World Series that the Yankees expected in the early innings of Game 5, their blend of power and patience showing up with force, fueling their surging optimism that maybe — just maybe — this team had all the necessary components to “shock the world,” as manager Aaron Boone had said.
Gerrit Cole had yet to permit a hit over four scoreless innings, the five-run wad in his back pocket bankrolled by home runs from Aaron Judge, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Giancarlo Stanton. Then came Tommy Edman’s sinking liner to center field, a routine play that would change the course of an evening that sent these Yankees into winter.
Curtain Call: Judge, Chisholm go back to back
Oct 30, 2024 · 3:26
Curtain Call: Judge, Chisholm go back to back
“You can’t give a good team like that extra outs,” Judge said after the Yankees’ 7-6 loss on Wednesday night, which sealed the Dodgers’ eighth World Series championship. “So it starts with me there, a line drive coming in. I misplayed that. If that doesn’t happen, I think it’s a different story tonight.”
Tommy Edman reaches first base on an error
Oct 31, 2024 · 0:29
Tommy Edman reaches first base on an error
Judge said there was nothing strange about Edman’s liner, except perhaps the fact that it wasn’t caught, clanking off Judge’s glove for his first error in 1,958 career innings as a center fielder (regular season and postseason).
With one foot seemingly already on a jet to Los Angeles, the Yankees had just opened the door for the flight delay of all delays.
This club survived a lack of fundamentals in the field and on the basepaths in the regular season because the Yankees thumped homers and worked walks more frequently than anyone else; even when those weaknesses showed up in the first two rounds of the postseason, the Royals and Guardians ultimately couldn’t contain New York’s firepower.
The Dodgers, however, would be a different story. Anthony Volpe fielded a Will Smith grounder and opted to throw to Chisholm at third base, intending to cut down Kiké Hernández. The toss was short, bouncing away from Chisholm and loading the bases with none out.
Aaron Judge on emotions of World Series loss, more
Oct 31, 2024 · 5:06
Aaron Judge on emotions of World Series loss, more
“Just trying to make a play,” Volpe said. “I figured that was my only play.”
Cole would have to dig deep for an escape, one he seemed primed for by striking out the next two hitters. Mookie Betts chopped a grounder to Anthony Rizzo at first base, and the crowd of 49,263 roared in anticipation of a stellar Houdini act; even the person at the controls of the Stadium sound system played a peppy end-of-inning ditty.
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Yet as Betts busted it down the baseline, Cole halted, pointing for Rizzo to take the ball to first base himself.
Gerrit Cole on the Dodgers’ five-run 5th inning
Oct 31, 2024 · 2:17
Gerrit Cole on the Dodgers’ five-run 5th inning
“I took a bad angle to the ball,” Cole said. “I wasn’t sure really off the bat how hard he hit it. I took a direct angle to it to cut it off. By the time the ball got by me, I was not in a position to cover first. Neither of us were, based on the spin of the baseball and him having to secure it.”
Betts was safe, Hernández scored, and Cole had to go back to the mound. The sequence unraveled from there; World Series MVP Freddie Freeman stroked a two-run single and Teoscar Hernández blasted a two-run double to deep center field, tying the game.
It was arguably the Yankees’ worst defensive inning of the season, and once Cole mercifully recorded the final out, one was reminded of the scene in Anchorman when Will Ferrell’s exhausted Ron Burgundy exhales after a bloody parking-lot battle: “Boy, that escalated quickly.”
Dodgers score five runs to tie game in the 5th
Oct 30, 2024 · 2:52
Dodgers score five runs to tie game in the 5th
“At the end of it, it almost felt like a win to just not give up the lead and be in a position to keep going,” Cole said.
5 things Yankees need to do to get back here
Yes, another theme of this campaign has been an ability to punch back; the Yanks recovered from a summer swoon that lasted far too long to secure the American League East, finishing with an AL-best 94 victories.
Anthony Rizzo on Yankees’ Game 5 loss, end of season
Oct 31, 2024 · 1:42
Anthony Rizzo on Yankees’ Game 5 loss, end of season
Even a 3-0 deficit in the World Series didn’t seem to daunt them; Volpe’s starring performance in Game 4 against the Dodgers marked one of the best Yankee Stadium moments since the 2009 championship.
“I think that’s what makes it so painful,” Volpe said. “We could go back and replay every single inning of every single game. We felt like we were good enough to win the World Series.”
‘It’s going to sting for a while’: Yanks lament lack of execution
So they would try once again, reclaiming the lead behind Stanton’s sixth-inning sacrifice fly. As Cole said: “When it was all said and done, the game was still in front of us with a chance to win.”
Giancarlo Stanton’s sacrifice fly
Oct 30, 2024 · 0:27
Giancarlo Stanton’s sacrifice fly
But a bullpen that exceeded expectations all postseason faltered when Tommy Kahnle allowed all three men he faced to reach in the eighth, a frame that also included a catcher’s interference error.
The clock ran out on the ’24 Yankees nine minutes before Halloween, with Alex Verdugo swinging through a Walker Buehler knuckle curve.
John Sterling bids farewell with call of final out
Oct 31, 2024 · 1:37
John Sterling bids farewell with call of final out
The Yankees steadfastly believed the talent levels between the two rosters in this dream World Series were comparable; that may be so, but the differences in execution were evident. They’ll have a long time to evaluate how it should have gone differently.
“I think falling short in the World Series will stick with me until I die, probably,” Judge said. “Just like every other loss, those things don’t go away. There’s battle scars along the way. Hopefully when my career is over, we’ve got a lot of battle scars, but also a lot of victories.”
Dodgers 'hit every speed bump possible' on way to title
Juan Toribio
NEW YORK — After winning the 2020 World Series, the Dodgers erased the frustration that came with their 32-year championship drought. What they didn’t do, however, was silence all the noise from the naysayers.
The Dodgers heard it all.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it wasn’t a full season. They played in a bubble. They never had to travel during the postseason and play in front of hostile crowds. It’s not real until you celebrate with a parade.
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Well, L.A., get ready for that parade. The Dodgers are World Series champions for the eighth time in their storied history following a 7-6 comeback win over the Yankees in Game 5 on Wednesday at Yankee Stadium.
“Now it’s two, baby. Now it’s two,” said Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy. “What are you going to say now?”
The Dodgers made sure there was nothing else left to say. And they did it their way. In a season that featured some of the best comebacks in franchise history, the Dodgers saved their best for last. As the Yankees took a five-run lead in the early innings, the series looked destined to be heading back to Los Angeles for a Game 6.
Dodgers win the World Series, discuss victory
Oct 31, 2024 · 5:29
Dodgers win the World Series, discuss victory
Jack Flaherty didn’t have his best stuff and was pulled after recording just four outs. The first couple of relievers that followed also had their struggles. The sold-out Yankee Stadium crowd was ready to party.
Walker Buehler seals World Series with 1-2-3 9th
Oct 31, 2024 · 1:48
Walker Buehler seals World Series with 1-2-3 9th
But as long as the Dodgers had outs left, there was always a chance. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts turned to seven different relievers to finish out the game, including Walker Buehler, who volunteered to pitch on Wednesday and recorded the final three outs. That gave the Dodgers’ offense more than enough time to strike.
Dodgers score five runs to tie game in the 5th
Oct 30, 2024 · 2:52
Dodgers score five runs to tie game in the 5th
Aided by a multitude of mistakes from the Yanks’ defense, the Dodgers scored five runs in the fifth. They then took the lead in the eighth inning with a pair of sacrifice flies by Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts. That helped them complete the five-run comeback, the largest to clinch a World Series in baseball history.
Mookie Betts’ go-ahead sacrifice fly
Oct 30, 2024 · 0:29
Mookie Betts’ go-ahead sacrifice fly
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“We’re grinders,” Betts said. “We never thought we were out of it. We just had to score one at a time. It was crazy how it unfolded. I mean, you gotta play a clean game to beat us, and our character came through.”
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Celebrating the World Series was exactly where the Dodgers expected to be when they built a juggernaut over the winter. After adding superstar Shohei Ohtani, Japanese phenom Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and Teoscar Hernández, they knew the expectation was to win a championship. Anything short of that would have been a failure. That’s the pressure that comes when you commit more than $1 billion in contracts.
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What the Dodgers didn’t know, though, was the adversity this group would have to face along the way. In the end, it’s a group that will best be known for their resiliency, one that overshadowed even their immense talent.
Max Muncy on World Series win, the Dodgers roster
Oct 31, 2024 · 1:03
Max Muncy on World Series win, the Dodgers roster
“This game was no different than our entire season,” Muncy said. “Get dealt a couple blows, come back from it. Get dealt some blows, come back from it. This game was literally our season in a nutshell. And it was special.”
Over the course of the summer, the Dodgers were forced to be without Muncy and Betts for an extended period of time. Freddie Freeman, the World Series Most Valuable Player, also battled injuries and spent time away attending to the health of his 3-year-old son, Max.
Freddie Freeman is presented World Series MVP award
Oct 31, 2024 · 2:23
Freddie Freeman is presented World Series MVP award
On the pitching side, there was a new injury seemingly every week. Yamamoto missed months and there were real concerns about him being done for the season due to a serious right shoulder injury. Gavin Stone went down for the year. So did Clayton Kershaw. Late in the season, they found out Glasnow would be forced to miss the rest of his season. The spate of injuries ran so long that Roberts decided to hold a meeting in Atlanta in September.
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In that meeting, Roberts challenged his players. He didn’t want them to feel sorry for themselves, though they had every reason to. As a team, they all looked around the room and realized they had more than enough talent to get the job done.
Teoscar Hernández on the Dodgers’ Game 5 comeback
Oct 31, 2024 · 1:04
Teoscar Hernández on the Dodgers’ Game 5 comeback
“We did go through a lot, but I’ll say we still had the best record in all of baseball this year,” Roberts said. “It wasn’t easy, but our guys fought and played every day the right way, played to win. There was a lot of backfilling on talent because of injury, a lot of young players cut their teeth, which is good. But one thing is that we just kept going.”
Dave Roberts on the team effort in World Series win
Oct 31, 2024 · 3:29
Dave Roberts on the team effort in World Series win
After securing the best record in the sport, the Dodgers’ challenges continued in October. In the second-to-last regular-season series, Freeman sustained a badly sprained right ankle, one that usually takes four-to-six weeks to heal. He needed just one to get back out on the field.
Enrique Hernández on the Dodgers’ postseason run
Oct 31, 2024 · 0:50
Enrique Hernández on the Dodgers’ postseason run
As they faced the Padres in the NL Division Series, the Dodgers were underdogs after falling behind two games to one, facing elimination in the first round for the third consecutive year. That’s when Kiké Hernández and the rest of the leadership in the clubhouse decided to speak up. They weren’t going to go down without a fight.
Three weeks later, there was no team left standing to try and knock out the Dodgers.
Blake Treinen’s excellent outing in Game 5
Oct 31, 2024 · 1:58
Blake Treinen’s excellent outing in Game 5
“It seems like we hit every speed bump possible over the course of this year. And to overcome what we did as a group of guys, it’s special,” Freeman said. “This is what we start out to do every single Spring Training is to win a championship. I think it’s the hardest thing to do in sports because you just never know what’s going to happen. I mean, we were down 2-1 in the NLDS and it easily could have gotten away from us. And to come back and win those two games and keep it going like we did, it’s just a special group of guys.”
Freddie Freeman on winning the World Series
Oct 31, 2024 · 1:26
Freddie Freeman on winning the World Series
It’s a group that has withstood disappointment throughout the year, but one that has been building toward this moment for a number of seasons. Betts became the first piece of the puzzle after being acquired from the Red Sox in 2020. Freeman joined him as a free agent two years later. Now with Ohtani in the mix, the Dodgers are set up to contend for multiple championships.
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That’s where they expect to be. But until then, they’ll celebrate this one. They’ll do it at a parade around Los Angeles that leads into Dodger Stadium. This time, there’s nothing else left to say.
Stan Kasten discusses Dodgers’ World Series win
Oct 31, 2024 · 4:03
Stan Kasten discusses Dodgers’ World Series win
“We can celebrate with our fans,” said Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman. “To be able to take it with them and do it through the streets of Los Angeles and Dodger Stadium, that’s where all of this will be the most special.”
BYLINE: By Ryan A. Berenz
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1. What is the nickname of the Australian women’s national basketball team?
2. Name the cable TV channel that launched on December 31, 1995, and was dedicated primarily to auto racing and other motorsports.
3. What golfer, at age 59, lost a four-hole playoff to Stewart Cink and finished second at the 2009 Open Championship?
4. Brothers Matt and Tim Hasselbeck both played quarterback for what college team?
5. Before it became the Michael Jordan Trophy in 2022, the award for the NBA’s Most Valuable Player was named after what sports administrator?
6. Austria’s Gudrun Pfluger, four-time winner of the women’s World Mountain Running Championships from 1992-96, dedicated her post-athletic career to the study and conservation of what animals?
7. What St. Louis Cardinals third baseman hit two grand slam home runs in one inning in an April 1999 game? (Hint: His son debuted with the San Diego Padres in 2019.)
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Answers
1. The Opals.
2. Speedvision (rebranded as Speed Channel in 2002).
3. Tom Watson.
4. The Boston College Eagles.
5. Maurice Podoloff.
6. Wolves.
7. Fernando Tatis Sr.
