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Yankees vs. Dodgers Game 2 score, live updates: Los Angeles looking to take 2-0 series lead after Freddie Freeman’s epic game-winner

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Yankees vs. Dodgers Game 2 score, live updates: Los Angeles looking to take 2-0 series lead after Freddie Freeman’s epic game-winner

If the Yankees and Dodgers can come anywhere close to the drama and excitement of Game 1 again in this World Series, baseball fans will be rejoicing. Freddie Freeman’s epic, walk-off grand slam to lift the Dodgers to a 6-3 win and a 1-0 lead in the series was the first walk-off grand slam in the World Series, and it came on the very first pitch Nestor Cortes threw to him.

While the good news for the Dodgers is that they’re up 1-0 in the World Series, thanks to Freeman’s epic Kirk Gibson impression (h/t Joe Davis for his Vin Scully nod), the good news for the Yankees is that it counts for only one, and New York can still take home-field advantage in the series with a win Saturday.

Carlos Rodón (1-1, 4.40 ERA, 14.1 IP 22 K, 1 BB in 2024 postseason) is starting for the Yankees against Yoshinobu Yamamoto (1-0, 5.11 ERA, 12.1 IP, 11 K, 4 BB) for the Dodgers.

  • Time: 8:08 p.m. ET

  • Location: Dodger Stadium | Los Angeles

  • TV Channel: Fox

  • Streaming: Fox Sports App, Fubo

Live41 updates

  • Cousins gets Ohtani to ground out to end the inning. It’s still 4-1 Dodgers through four.

  • Stats are still coming in on Freddie Freeman.

  • Will Smith welcomes Jake Cousins with a double to the center field wall. Big hit there because it means Shohei Ohtani will probably be facing the righty Cousins, though Cousins is good on both sides of the plate.

  • Rodón’s final line: 3 1/3 innings, 6 H, 4 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 3 HR, 63 pitches. Just a bad matchup for a solid pitcher.

  • Rodón strikes out Muncy and that will do it for him. Jake Cousins, who took the loss last night after allowing a hit and a walk in three batters, is taking over.

    The Yankees bullpen now has 5 2/3 innings to cover, which probably isn’t what Aaron Boone was envisioning tonight.

  • The Yankees are indeed keeping Rodón in for the fourth inning. Maybe not a surprise with the back half of the lineup due up, but you could also see them pulling him after the left-handed Max Muncy.

  • Yoshinobu Yamamoto throws a scoreless fourth inning, and just as significantly, needs only 10 pitches to do it. He has thrown 62, and the Dodgers would certainly like it if he can go longer than his usual, say, five innings.

  • Homers getting to Rodón

    Even when Carlos Rodón’s stuff looks sharp and is in the zone, he is especially prone to fly balls — a dangerous weakness against a team such as the Dodgers that has so many hitters capable of hitting the ball airborne with authority.

    Rodón’s hardest pitch of the night — a 98 mph, 1-0 heater to Teoscar Hernandez — was torched to center for a homer before Freddie Freeman followed by winning a six-pitch battle that ended with another homer to put L.A. up 4-1.

    Aaron Boone will have some tough decisions to make soon regarding which bullpen arms he chooses to deploy if he hopes to keep this game close.

  • Carlos Rodón gets out of the inning, and we’ll see if they send him back out there to face the bottom of the Dodgers lineup before reaching the third time through the order. He’s at 59 pitches through three.

    Big problem for him here: He usually relies on his changeup against right-handed batters such as Edman and Hernández, but the Dodgers had the best wOBA in baseball against offspeed pitches during the regular season.

  • And now a double from Tommy Edman. The Dodgers have Carlos Rodón on the ropes.

  • Dodgers 4, Yankees 1

    Freddie Freeman entered the World Series without an extra-base hit this postseason. He now has two homers and a triple in a game and a half after going back-to-back with Hernández. Absolutely huge for the Dodgers.

  • Dodgers 3, Yankees 1

    Teoscar Hernández responds. Rodón threw a 98 mph fastball high, and the 2024 Home Run Derby champ smashed it to right. We’re seeing a little more power than in Game 1.

  • “We’re going to run him as far as we can take him” — Dave Roberts on Yoshinobu Yamamoto, before admitting the game could come down to the bullpens.

  • Soto wins second battle with Yamamoto

    Juan Soto vs. Yoshinobu Yamamoto was one of the more intriguing matchups heading into Game 2, considering Soto was not in the lineup when Yamamoto was excellent against the Yankees in the Bronx back in June.

    Yamamoto got Soto to ground out in the first inning, but it took 7 pitches to do so, so Soto got early looks at Yamamoto’s fastball, curveball and splitter. Another lengthy battle ensued in the 3rd inning, and this time, Soto took the 6th pitch from Yamamoto — a 95 mph heater down and in — way out to right field to tie the game.

    Breaking news: This Soto fella is pretty good at hitting.

  • That was a straight-up missed target for Yamamoto against Soto. Yamamoto’s command hasn’t been great today, but his stuff was good enough to keep him out of trouble, until …

  • Aaron Judge flies out to end the inning, and we’re tied heading into the bottom of the third. Yamamoto’s at 52 pitches.

  • Yankees 1, Dodgers 1

    Juan Soto. After taking a ball with two strikes and fouling another off, he blasts an inside-corner fastball into the right-field stands.



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