B/R Stroll-Off
Main League Baseball could not have scripted a extra notable 2024 World Sequence matchup if it tried.
Huge cities? Examine.
Huge fanbases? Examine.
Lengthy histories of success? Examine.
Star energy? Examine.
The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees will face off within the Fall Traditional after the previous clinched their spot with a 10-5 victory over the New York Mets in Sport 6 of the Nationwide League Championship Sequence on Sunday.
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Reaching this stage is nothing new for Los Angeles, which gained the 2020 World Sequence in addition to the 2017 and 2018 Nationwide League pennants. In truth, the Dodgers have reached at the very least the NLCS 9 instances since 2008.
New York is not that far behind with seven appearances within the American League Championship Sequence in that span, though its final World Sequence title got here in 2009. That is not too way back for a lot of groups, however the Bronx Bombers have 27 championships of their illustrious historical past.
Fifteen years counts as a drought within the Huge Apple.
Ending that championship-less stretch will probably be something however simple, as it can imply determining a method to defeat a lineup that features Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman, amongst others.
After all, the Yankees have their very own star energy.
Aaron Decide, Juan Soto, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Giancarlo Stanton and Anthony Rizzo headline a lineup that overpowered the Cleveland Guardians within the ALCS. Stanton and Soto mixed for seven residence runs on their very own within the five-game collection victory over Cleveland and can look to maintain rolling in opposition to the Dodgers.
Followers of the trendy recreation will certainly like to see Ohtani, Decide, Betts, Soto, Stanton and the opposite stars all on the sector collectively on this collection.
And followers of the historical past of the sport will certainly like to see this explicit matchup as soon as once more beneath the highlight. In any case, the Yankees and Dodgers confronted one another in 11 completely different World Sequence with some coming when the latter have been in Brooklyn and the newest one occurring in 1981.
New York is 8-3 in these World Sequence matchups and can look to proceed its historic dominance over its subsequent foe.