World Series live updates: Here comes the Judge! Yankees begin Game 5 with a bang

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Grand slams are fun, aren’t they? The momentum in this 2024 World Series has been dictated by a pair of them. Freddie Freeman’s walk-off in Game 1 set the tone for what would become a 3-0 series lead for the Dodgers, and Anthony Volpe’s Game 4 grand slam helped the Yankees avoid a sweep, but can New York keep riding that wave?

That’s the question the Yankees and Gerrit Cole have to answer on Wednesday in Game 5. The New York ace (1-0, 2.82 ERA, 22 1/3 IP, 16 K, 6 BB) was lights-out in Game 1, when he allowed just four hits and one run in six innings. Another stellar night from Cole could help the Yankees send the series back to Los Angeles. Jack Flaherty got the ball for L.A. in this one but exited early after surrendering four runs while getting just four outs.

A Dodgers win in Game 5 would deliver an eighth World Series title for the franchise, while a Yankees win — which would come without the two fans who were banned after Game 4’s incident with Mookie Betts — would mean a Game 6 on Friday in Los Angeles.

How to watch Dodgers vs. Yankees, World Series Game 5 (LAD leads 3-1)

  • Time: 8:08 p.m. ET

  • Location: Yankee Stadium | New York

  • TV Channel: Fox

  • Streaming: Fox Sports App, Fubo

Live35 updates

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    Brasier gets through the third with no further trouble, but the hole keeps getting bigger for the Dodgers.

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    Stanton still locked in

    Ryan Brasier entered for the 3rd inning and was immediately greeted by Giancarlo Stanton with a rocket out to right field for Stanton’s SEVENTH homer this postseason.

    It’s a franchise record for home runs by a Yankee in a single postseason.

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    Yankees 5, Dodgers 0

    Ryan Brasier takes over for the Dodgers in the third inning and Giancarlo Stanton welcomes him with a first-pitch homer to right, narrated on the Fox broadcast by Aaron Boone.

    Los Angeles fans can probably start preparing for Friday.

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    Gerrit Cole is cruising

    A 2-out walk to Gavin Lux to turn the lineup over prompted a brief moment of concern for the Yankees, as Shohei Ohtani strode to the plate for the Dodgers, but Gerrit Cole is in full command right now.

    He quickly retired Ohtani with an excellent changeup on which Ohtani flew out softly to left field. Cole has not allowed a hit through his first three innings of work.

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    And that knocks Ohtani down to 2-for-17 in the World Series. That shoulder might be bothering him more than the Dodgers have let on.

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    Shohei Ohtani flies out and Gerrit Cole is through three hitless innings at only 34 pitches. We could be seeing a special start here at Yankee Stadium.

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    Let’s have some fun with hindsight. There might be some criticism toward the Dodgers for going with a bullpen game when they had a chance to end this thing last night. That would be misguided (they really didn’t have any options, and Landon Knack, effectively their No. 4 starter, threw four innings anyway).

    The mistake might have been in the arms they decided to use, as they could have replaced Daniel Hudson before Anthony Volpe’s game-turning grand slam. They didn’t use a high-leverage arm in a game they trailed by only one run in the sixth, and that might be something to regret if this series keeps going the way it has.

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    Chisholm grounds out to first on a very close play, and it remains four runs for the Yankees through two.

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    And Banda walks Judge. It’ll be Jazz Chisholm Jr. with the bases loaded and two outs. This Yankees team looks very different.

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    Anthony Banda walks Juan Soto (again), and here comes Aaron Judge (again), with a man on second after Alex Verdugo reached second on a wild pitch. Nothing is going the Dodgers’ way so far.

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    Short night for Flaherty

    Jack Flaherty’s night is done, dusted, over. The Dodgers starter, who looked so fabulous in Game 1 of this World Series, heads to the showers having allowed four runs while recording just four outs.

    His fastball velocity wasn’t down — which is what happened in his poor NLCS Game 5 start — but the command was all over the place. Los Angeles will have to come back from down 4 runs and piece together 23 more outs from their bullpen if they want to pop bottles tonight.

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    Yankees 4, Dodgers 0

    Alex Verdugo drives in Anthony Volpe, and it’s all Yankees so far tonight. Anthony Banda is coming in for Jack Flaherty after 1 1/3 innings.

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    Aaron Judge is alive

    That sound you just heard was Yankee Stadium exhaling and exalting; Aaron Judge has homered in the World Series.

    The Yankees captain had been mired in a brutal slump, entering Game 4 with just 2 hits (a single and a double) in 15 Fall Classic at-bats. But the man who cranked 58 big flies this regular season took the first pitch he saw from Dodgers hurler Jack Flaherty — a 94 mph fastball right down Broadway — and put it in the right-field seats.

    The Yankees still have a daunting task ahead of them, but getting Judge hot again would make it a lot more manageable.

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    Game 4 hero Anthony Volpe leads off with a double off Jack Flaherty, who once again is not looking sharp in Game 5 after shutting down a New York team in Game 1 of a series.

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    And another 1-2-3 inning for Cole, who is at 19 pitches through two innings. An ideal start for the Yankees.

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    Jazz finally heating up?

    Jazz Chisholm Jr. had just 1 RBI this postseason before that solo homer to go back-to-back with Aaron Judge and send the Yankee Stadium crowd into a frenzy. That was his HR way back in Game 2 of the ALDS against Kansas City.

    Jazz has started to hit balls harder over the past few games, but it would be huge for New York if he can heat up more substantially as this series progresses, especially if he remains in the cleanup spot.

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    Jack Flaherty gets out of the inning with plenty of damage done. The Dodgers’ offense can score three runs in eight innings, but it’s going to be an uphill battle against Cole and the Yankees’ bullpen.

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    Jack Flaherty could have located the two home run balls better.

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    The question now is if anything has changed with the Dodgers’ pitching plans. They were set up to deploy nearly all their late-inning arms behind Jack Flaherty to help close this thing out, and they might still do so with a (very long) day off tomorrow should they not come back.

    Anthony Banda is currently warming in the bullpen.





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