Freddie Freeman Blasts Grand Slam, Dodgers Win Game One Of The 2024 World Series

The Los Angeles Dodgers prepared themselves all year for a series like this and they were going to make sure they gave it everything they could in Game One of the 2024 World Series.

For LA, it was Jack Flaherty, the hometown boy who was ready to take the mound against Gerrit Cole, who grew up in Tustin, California, and was ready to try and add another ring to his dominant hand that has led to many victories throughout the year for the New York Yankees.

Shohei Ohtani signed a massive deal this past offseason to join the Boys in Blue where his number one goal when joining the league and the team was to win it all. Not just win the MVP, not win the Cy Young when he is able to pitch, but to win the biggest games of the year and get himself a ring with the dominant Dodgers who have made the postseason every year for the last decade.

In the first couple of innings, both teams had their defense tight and perfect. There were no runs allowed until the bottom of the fifth inning when Will Smith knocked a flyball out into right field before Enrique Hernandez brought himself home to give LA the first run of the World Series.

Whether they were down by a lot or two runs, the LA Dodgers came to fight and were not going to go down without delivering the knockout blow they needed to take out the number one team in the MLB with Championship wins in the World Series (27). The three-headed dragon that is Aaron Judge, Juan Soto, and Giancarlo Stanton were not here for a walk in the park, they meant business.

The bullpen came in electric for the Dodgers when they needed it the most, in a historic year that needed to switch through pitchers through each series they played. It was the unit of Jack Flaherty, Anthony Banda, Brusdar Graterol, Alex Vesia, Michael Kopech, and Blake Treinen that did things the right way and handled it best enough to keep the Boys in Blue alive until the very end.

Nine innings was not enough for the first game of the World Series between LA and New York who brought it to a sudden death tenth inning where the Dodgers were down by one and needed each batter coming up to embrace the pressure and come out with the win at home.

Mookie Betts thought he was going to have an attempt at getting the win for the Dodgers, but the Yankees had different plans when they decided to walk him and load up the bases for the returning Freddie Freeman who has been out with an ankle injury, but that didn't stop him from making fans all over the world lose their voice after he connected with the biggest hit in the World Series so far.

A shotgun blast delivered by Freeman brought the Dodgers three more wins away from collecting their eighth World Series Championship. They take the victory at home, solidifying themselves as the team that delivered the first knockdown blow as they head into game number two against an always dangerous Yankees team who will look to try and repeat what they almost had in extra innings.

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