You can’t complete the comeback from down 3-0 if you don’t win your first game.
Well, the New York Yankees have lived to fight another day, taking Game 4 of the World Series with an 11-4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Freddie Freeman, of course, got it all started with a two-run homer in the first, but the Yanks cut the deficit in half after Alex Verdugo drove in a run on a fielder’s choice. But in the next inning, Anthony Volpe delivered a big blow with a grand slam that gave the Yankees a 5-2 lead, their first since Game 1.
Of course, the Yankees are trying to become the second team in MLB history to complete the comeback from trailing 3-0, only accomplished by the 2004 Boston Red Sox against the Yankees in that year’s ALCS – perhaps Volpe, a New Jersey native who was at the 2009 Yankees World Series parade, may be this year’s version of Dave Roberts, who manages the Dodgers and kick-started that comeback 20 years ago.
Game 5 is back in the Bronx, and the Yankees have some momentum – they’ll have reigning Cy Young Award winner Gerrit Cole on the mound, while the Dodgers will return serve with Jack Flaherty.
With a win, it would be the first time a Fall Classic would be pushed to a Game 6 after a team took a 3-0 lead – that contest would be Friday night back in Los Angeles.
Safe to say, the pressure is on.
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