What to know about Game 5
- How to watch and stream the World Series
- The Yankees lead 4-0 in the bottom of the second
- It's a pitching rematch of Game 1 with Gerrit Cole for the Yankees and Jack Flaherty for the Dodgers
- The Yankees are trying to be the first team in World Series history to force a Game 6 after losing the first three
Jack Flaherty pulled after only four outs
Jack Flaherty’s night is done for the Dodgers after he gave up another run in the bottom of the second. Anthony Volpe doubled, moved to the third on a fielder's choice and came home on an Alex Verdugo single.
Flaherty gave up four hits, struck one and walked one. All four runs are earned and he is responsible for the runner on first.
The Yanks lead 4-0, and will now face the Los Angeles bullpen for the rest of the game.
Three up, three down for the Dodgers in the second
Nothing going for the Dodgers in the top of the second except two strikeouts and a fly out.
Yankees will take their 3-0 lead into the bottom of the inning.
Yankees fans go wild after back-to-back home runs
As you can imagine, Yankees fans were ecstatic in the first inning with the back-to-back homers.
Yanks up 3-0 after one inning
Two home runs for the Yankees in the bottom of the first, and they take a 3-0 lead into the top of the second.
Back-to-back homers for New York!
Jazz Chisholm takes Jack Flaherty deep only four pitches after Aaron Judge.
It’s now 3-0 New York.
Aaron Judge goes yard!
Finally! After a Juan Soto walk, Aaron Judge launched a two-run homer to right field, his first home run of the World Series. The Yanks lead 2-0.
1-2-3 first for Gerrit Cole
Two fly outs and a groundout for the Dodgers in the top of the first.
Yanks will now come up to bat for the first time against Jack Flaherty.
Game 5 is underway...
...And Shohei Ohtani flies out on a first-pitch fastball from Gerrit Cole.
Repeat of Game 1 pitchers
Both teams are bringing back their starters from the opening game of the series, with Gerrit Cole for the Yankees and Jack Flaherty for the Dodgers.
Both men pitched well and it was a low-scoring game until Freddie Freeman's walk-off grand slam.
Cole pitched six innings and only gave up four hits, one run and no walks while striking out four. Flaherty pitched 5.1 innings, five hits, two runs a walk and six strikeouts.
Dodgers still heavily favored to win the series
The loss in Game 4 dropped the Dodgers’ odds (-800) to win the World Series by 60% and the Yankees’ odds (+550) to win it all improved by 45%.
Anthony Rizzo lays out a path for the Yankees
First baseman Anthony Rizzo, who was on the 2016 Chicago Cubs which came back from 3-1 to win the World Series, said winning the first game after going down 3-0 was the hardest one.
What’s the record for home runs in a single World Series? Where Freddie Freeman ranks
The Los Angeles Dodgers star extended his historic World Series home run streak to six games last night, hitting a two-run shot off New York Yankees starter Luis Gil in the first inning of Game 4.
The eight-time All-Star, who homered in the final two games of the Atlanta Braves’ 2021 World Series win over the Houston Astros, is the first player to go yard in six consecutive games in the Fall Classic overall.
Freeman is now one home run away from tying the record for the most homers by a player in a single World Series. There have been three players who recorded five homers in a single World Series, with Reggie Jackson first doing so in the Yankees’ 1977 World Series triumph over the Dodgers.
Chase Utley matched Jackson’s mark in the Philadelphia Phillies‘ 2009 World Series loss to the Yankees before George Springer had a five-homer showing in the Astros’ 2017 World Series win against the Dodgers.
Freeman’s four homers against New York are tied for fourth with several players, including Barry Bonds and Babe Ruth.
Fan who interfered with Betts was college friends with the Gronk
The first fan to interfere with Mookie Betts last night has been identified as 38-year-old Connecticut resident Austin Capobianco.
He said the Yankees’ decision to prevent him from coming tonight didn’t surprise him.
“The banning to tonight’s game was kind of expected, but the fact my little brother and his friends can’t use our season tickets tonight has really pissed me off,” he said in a text message to NBC News. “It’s not like they can go to the next game.”
Capobianco is a longtime, diehard Yankees fan, according to the man’s college pal Rob Gronkowski, the former Arizona Wildcats, New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end.
“He is all in for his teams, he is all in for the Yankees. I remember him talking about the Yankees all the time, how he loves them so much,” Gronkowski told FanDuel TV’s “Up & Adams” show.
“He’s a fun dude. It is unacceptable, definitely, in the world of sports,” Gronkowski said of the catch interference. “But when you’re that big of a fan, that’s what fans do.”
Yankees redistribute ejected fans’ tickets to cancer patient and family
Following the Game 5 ban of two fans who ripped the ball out of Mookie Betts’ hands in Game 4, the New York Yankees announced they are redistributing those tickets.
The tickets will instead go to a pediatric cancer patient and his family, the Yankees said ahead of the game.
The two banned fans had tickets for Game 5 but had their money refunded.
Babyface will perform the national anthem
Major League Baseball has announced 13-time Grammy Award winning singer and producer Babyface will be performing the national anthem for Game 5 of the World Series.
Secondary ticket demand surges after Yankees win
With the Yankees extending the series, it seems fans are eager to see if they can force a Game 6.
Ticket sales jumped 51% on StubHub for tonight's contest in The Bronx after the Game 4 victory, the company said. The tickets start at $570 for standing room only and the average ticket costs $1,500.
Lineups for the teams
The Yankees, after scoring 11 runs last night, unsurprisingly go with the same batting lineup as the night before.
Hideki Matsui returns to the Bronx
Yankees greats Derek Jeter and Paul O’Neill threw out the first pitches for World Series Games 3 and 4 at Yankee Stadium this week. Tonight, the Yankees will turn to another pinstripe great to lift the team before the game.
Hideki Matsui, the 2009 World Series MVP, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch before Game 5.
Anthony Volpe grew up idolizing Derek Jeter
After his heroics in Game 4, Anthony Volpe sat down with Derek Jeter who told him there are kids who want to be just like Volpe when they grow up. The moment was special for the current Yankees shortstop who idolized Jeter as a kid.
Yankees need to find steady momentum during Game 5
John Smoltz unpacks the mental toughness it took for the New York Yankees to force a Game 5 in the World Series, and why the narrative on Aaron Judge needing a big-time performance is difficult.
World Series Game 3 averages 13.64 million, beats ‘Monday Night Football’
The World Series beat “Monday Night Football” in the battle for television viewers.
The Los Angeles Dodgers’ 4-2 victory over the New York Yankees in Game 3 of the Fall Classic averaged 13.64 million viewers on Fox, Fox Deportes and streaming according to early numbers by Nielsen. That beat the 13.4 million that tuned in for the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 26-18 win over the New York Giants on ABC, ESPN, ESPN Deportes, ESPN2 and streaming.
The audience for Yankees-Dodgers peaked at 14.25 million from 9-9:15 p.m. EDT. It was the most-watched Game 3 since 2018, when the Dodgers’ 18-inning victory over the Red Sox averaged 13.3 million.
It is Fox’s most-viewed prime-time telecast on a Monday since Game 5 of the 2013 Series between Boston and St. Louis (14.45 million).
Yankee fans who interfered with Mookie Betts catch banned from Game 5
Two New York Yankees fans were banned from tonight's game in the Bronx after they crossed into the field of play and interfered with Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts in last night's game.
The pair jarred the ball loose, but umpires immediately ruled Yankees batter Gleyber Torres out and the front-row fans were kicked out.
“Last night two fans were ejected from Yankee Stadium for egregious and unacceptable physical contact with Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts,” the Yankees said in a statement Wednesday. “The safety and security of players, fans and Stadium staff is the foundational element of every event held at Yankee Stadium, and it cannot be compromised.”
Shohei Ohtani stokes national pride in Japan with World Series debut
Reporting from OSHU CITY, Japan
In Oshu, the small rural town where Shohei Ohtani grew up, baseball is as much a part of the landscape as the farmers’ fields and low-rise hills surrounding it. The area has long been known for its beef and ironwork. Now it’s famous for Ohtani.
Local officials have organized watch parties at community centers in the area where people are given inflatable sticks saying “Shohei Ohtani — The Pride of Oshu City” to wave when cheering for the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar as his team takes on the New York Yankees in Ohtani’s first World Series.
As they watched Game 4, which aired at 9 a.m. Wednesday morning in Japan, Yasuo Sakamoto, 74, and his wife Keiko, 70, wore the Dodgers jerseys and hats they got when they visited Los Angeles this summer to see Ohtani play.
“Even at my age, I’m really awed by him,” Yasuo Sakamoto said of Ohtani. “In Japan when there’s news about Ohtani, it’s bright news. If they win, it’s going to be even brighter.”
Betts has crazy moment with Yankees fans in Game 4
Dan Patrick explains why he didn’t understand the need for two New York fans to become involved with Mookie Betts in the field of play during Game 4 of the World Series against the Dodgers.
Legendary radio sports commentator John Sterling surprised fans with a return to the microphone just in time to celebrate the Yankees’ Game 4 win of the World Series. NBC’s Jesse Kirsch reports for "TODAY."