World Series live updates: Dodgers rally thanks to lousy Yankees defense

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Grand slams are fun, aren’t they? The momentum in this 2024 World Series has been dictated by a pair of them. Freddie Freeman’s walk-off in Game 1 set the tone for what would become a 3-0 series lead for the Dodgers, and Anthony Volpe’s Game 4 grand slam helped the Yankees avoid a sweep, but can New York keep riding that wave?

That’s the question the Yankees and Gerrit Cole have to answer on Wednesday in Game 5. The New York ace (1-0, 2.82 ERA, 22 1/3 IP, 16 K, 6 BB) was lights-out in Game 1, when he allowed just four hits and one run in six innings. Another stellar night from Cole could help the Yankees send the series back to Los Angeles. Jack Flaherty got the ball for L.A. in this one but exited early after surrendering four runs while getting just four outs.

A Dodgers win in Game 5 would deliver an eighth World Series title for the franchise, while a Yankees win — which would come without the two fans who were banned after Game 4’s incident with Mookie Betts — would mean a Game 6 on Friday in Los Angeles.

How to watch Dodgers vs. Yankees, World Series Game 5 (LAD leads 3-1)

  • Time: 8:08 p.m. ET

  • Location: Yankee Stadium | New York

  • TV Channel: Fox

  • Streaming: Fox Sports App, Fubo

Live57 updates

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    Stress for Vesia in 5th

    Dodgers reliever Alex Vesia gets himself in and out of trouble there in the fifth. After briskly recording the first two outs, the lefty surrendered a hit to the suddenly hot Anthony Volpe. Vesia then gave free passes to the Yankees’ eight and nine hitters, plunking Austin Wells and walking Alex Verdugo.

    That flipped the order, bringing right-handed leadoff man Gleyber Torres to the plate, a potentially horrifying matchup for Vesia. But the Dodgers hurler rediscovered the zone and got Torres to fly out to the track in right. Disaster averted.

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    Torres flies out, and this is still a tie game. Looks like Gerrit Cole is staying in after that 38-pitch disaster inning (in which all five runs were unearned).

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    Vesia then walks Alex Verdugo, and he will face Gleyber Torres with the bases loaded and two outs. Brusdar Graterol just started warming, but too late to face the right-handed Torres.

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    Alex Vesia got two outs, but an Anthony Volpe single and Austin Wells HBP give the Yankees two runners. Wells is being looked at by a trainer after taking a 94 mph pitch to the arm.

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    The inning mercifully ends for Gerrit Cole and the Yankees. He entered the fifth with a no-hitter going on 49 pitches. Then: single, reach on error, reach on error, strikeout, strikeout, single, single, double, walk, groundout. Cole is now at 87 pitches.

    A torturous inning ties the game, and Yankee Stadium is stunned right now.

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    Catastrophe in the Bronx

    OUT. OF. NOWHERE. This ball game is tied.

    Sloppy, sloppy baseball from the Yankees here in the 5th inning has completely changed the trajectory of this game and, potentially, the series. The Yanks gave the Dodgers three free outs — one on a dropped fly ball to Aaron Judge, one on a poor throw from Anthony Volpe and one on a miscommunication between Gerrit Cole and Anthony Rizzo.

    Defense and baserunning have been the Yankees’ bugaboos all year, and it should be zero surprise that has come back to bite them here. What a disaster for Cole and the Yanks.

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    Gerrit Cole’s 84th pitch just walked Max Muncy, and Tommy Kahnle is warming.

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    Dodgers 5, Yankees 5

    WE HAVE A TIE GAME.

    Teoscar Hernandez hits a two-run double and this is an absolute disaster for the Yankees. Practice your defense, kids.

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    Yankees 5, Dodgers 3

    It wasn’t a grand slam, but Freddie Freeman makes the Yankees pay for their mistakes with a two-run single. The Dodgers have life.

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    Yankees 5, Dodgers 1

    What? Mookie Betts hits an easy grounder to first and … Gerrit Cole doesn’t cover first. Betts beats Anthony Rizzo to first base easily, and that’s a run for the Dodgers, who now have Freddie Freeman up with the bases loaded.

    Remember that picture of Cole as a kid with his Yankees sign? That’s when he should have learned that play.

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    Shohei Ohtani strikes out with three ugly swings on four pitches. He’s 2-for-18 in the World Series and is still not looking right.

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    Gavin Lux strikes out on a 99 mph fastball. One down for the Yankees, with the top of the Dodgers order coming up.

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    And another defensive misplay by the Yankees. Will Smith hits a grounder to short, and Anthony Volpe bounces the throw to third.

    Bases loaded, no outs for the Dodgers. Hard to understate how important this is for them.

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    Aaron Judge had an easy catch off the bat of Tommy Edman but lost it. The Dodgers now have two on and no outs — their first real life of the game so far.

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    The Dodgers have a hit! Kiké Hernández laces a line drive to right field, and there won’t be another Don Larsen tonight.

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    Kopech throws a scoreless fourth, but even that was dicey at times (Aaron Judge came a few feet short of his second homer). To the fifth we go, with Gerrit Cole still hitless.

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    The Dodgers deploy one of their top arms in Michael Kopech for the fourth inning. Again, with a day off for their best arms yesterday and a day off tomorrow, they’re probably going to stick with their pregame plan unless this thing gets extra silly.

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    Judge showing off

    Following a leadoff walk from Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman smashed a curveball from Gerrit Cole to deep left-center field, but Aaron Judge ranged back and made a leaping catch before crashing into the wall, robbing Freeman of extra bases and giving the soon-to-be AL MVP a signature defensive moment to go with his big home run earlier in the game.

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    The Dodgers offense hasn’t been its dominant self this series, and it’s now looking pretty barren.





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