Despite a first-inning error, Tommy Edman made key plays in the field that kept the Dodgers in the game and ultimately helped them win it.
Fresh off his MVP-winning performance against the New York Mets in the National League Championship Series, Dodgers shortstop Tommy Edman opened the World Series against the New York Yankees on Friday night with a … clank!
The first ball hit to him in Game 1 in Dodger Stadium, a 93.5-mph grounder off the bat of slugger Giancarlo Stanton, went off Edman’s glove for an error, allowing the Yankees to put two on with two outs in the first inning.
The rare miscue from the sure-handed utility man did not cost the Dodgers, as the next batter, Jazz Chisholm Jr., grounded out to end the inning, and Edman’s evening got progressively better from there.
Edman turned a double play on Juan Soto’s grounder up the middle in the third inning and saved a run in the sixth with a diving stop that prevented Austin Wells’ ground-ball single with two on from reaching the outfield.
Then, in the bottom of the 10th, Edman followed Gavin Lux’s one-out walk with a single off the glove of diving second baseman Oswaldo Cabrera, and Edman was on second when Freddie Freeman sent a crowd of 52,394 into a frenzy with a walk-off grand slam that gave the Dodgers a come-from-behind, 6-3 win.
“I don’t know, I kind of blacked out,” Edman said when asked to describe his reaction to the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history. “I’m sure I screamed pretty loud and jumped up and down.
“I was trying to get a huge secondary lead to score on a single. I knew their outfielders were playing in, because they didn’t want anyone to score. I was trying to get way off the base, and fortunately I didn’t have to run very hard.”
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