The Dodgers keep the good times going, chasing Game 1’s dramatic finish with a 4-2 victory in Game 2 that sends them to New York just two wins from a World Series title.
About the whole “whole new ballgame” thing.
What if that’s a whole bunch of baloney?
Because if you’re the Dodgers and Freddie Freeman has, only hours before, set off an impromptu firework show across L.A. with his historic blast in the 10th inning to win Game 1 of the World Series, no, you don’t try to immediately turn the page.
Why would you want to?
All you want to do is keep the good times going. And so the Dodgers have, chasing Game 1’s dramatics with a 4-2 victory in Game 2, jumping ahead 4-1 on Saturday night and holding off the New York Yankees after that at Dodger Stadium.
The Dodgers now need only two more victories as the best-of-seven World Series heads to New York, with Games 3, 4 and, possibly, 5, set for Monday, Tuesday and potentially Wednesday.
It was, as Ice Cube – the rapper and Saturday’s pregame opening act, would tell us – a couple of good days in L.A.
Would have been all good if the Dodgers’ global superstar Shohei Ohtani hadn’t hurt his left shoulder sliding into second base in the seventh inning Saturday.
Seeing their biggest star walk off the field cradling his arm took some wind out of the Dodgers’ sails, but still, a steady wind is still at their backs heading east.
The first two victories of this series will, of course, be remembered most for Freeman’s grand slam off of New York Yankees left-hander Nestor Cortes on Friday night – the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history, and the kind of thing you wear for a bit after experiencing it.
