Morning Briefing: Dodgers Now Up 2-0 on Yankees in World Series

Good morning, Mets fans!

The Dodgers are headed back to New York for the second straight series — but, this time, it’s against the Yankees.

Also different about this series is that L.A. has a 2-0 lead, as opposed to when it split its first two games with the Mets. NLCS MVP Tommy Edman, Teoscar Hernández and Freddie Freeman all homered for the Dodgers in a 4-2 win on Saturday. It was Freeman’s fourth consecutive World Series game with a homer, tying with Lou Gehrig and Reggie Jackson for the second-most all-time, per MLB Stats. George Springer owns the longest such streak at five.

Shohei Ohtani left the game early for the Dodgers, though, after suffering an injury while getting caught trying to steal second base. The FOX broadcast reported that it’s a left shoulder injury, and that Ohtani could be heard saying his shoulder popped out.

There’s no baseball today as the teams fly back across the country. The World Series will resume on Monday at 8:08 p.m. ET.

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The Yankees are feeling the pressure. According to Jon Heyman of The New York Post, the Yankees are now seeing the Mets as a bigger threat to target their star, Juan Soto, and began to plead their case more on Saturday, suggesting that to lose Soto to the Mets would be a “buzzkill.”

The MLB Players Association announced on Saturday that Aaron Judge and Rhys Hoskins received the top honors in the 2024 Players Choice Awards.

Fox Sports Public Relations on Saturday announced that World Series game 1 had 15.2 million viewers. It was the most-watched World Series Game 1 since the 2017 Astros vs. Dodgers game.

Executive Director of the MLB Players Association, Tony Clark, spoke with Jesse Rogers of ESPN on Friday and discussed the need for clubs to change the way they use pitchers in order to reduce the amount of injuries.