NEW YORK – The Dodgers continued their dominance within the World Collection on Monday evening, profitable 4-2 over the Yankees at Yankee Stadium to take a 3-0 lead.
In all best-of-seven postseason collection, groups taking a 3-0 lead have gone on to win the collection 39 of 40 occasions (98%), together with 31 sweeps. Simply two groups down 3-0 have even compelled a Recreation 7: the 2020 Astros, who misplaced to the Rays within the ALCS, and the 2004 Crimson Sox, who beat the Yankees within the ALCS. The final group to pressure a Recreation 5 when down 3-0 in a World Collection was the Reds in 1970 towards the Orioles.
The World Collection hasn’t led to a sweep since 2012, by the Giants over the Tigers. The Dodgers have one best-of-seven sweep: the 1963 World Collection over the Yankees.
Earlier than we be taught if 2024 will be a part of that listing, right here’s a have a look at eight stats and info from Recreation 3.
• Freddie Freeman entered having homered in every recreation of the collection and wasted no time including Recreation 3 to the listing, going yard within the first. He grew to become simply the third participant to homer in Video games 1, 2 and three of a World Collection, becoming a member of 2002 Barry Bonds (Giants) and 1958 Hank Bauer (Yankees). No person has finished so within the first 4. The one participant to homer in 4 straight video games inside a single World Collection is George Springer, in 2017 Video games 4-7.
• Freeman has now homered in 5 consecutive World Collection video games courting again to 2021 with the Braves. That’s tied for the longest streak within the Fall Basic, with Springer. Freeman has homered in his final three video games this postseason, tying 1985 Invoice Madlock for the longest streak in Dodgers postseason historical past.
• The Recreation 3 efficiency gave Freeman 5 World Collection homers in 9 video games. That’s tied with Chase Utley for the second-most in a participant’s first 9 profession World Collection video games, behind solely Springer, with six.
• Walker Buehler sparkled, with 5 scoreless innings and simply two hits allowed. It was the thirteenth scoreless World Collection begin in Dodgers historical past and first since Buehler himself in Recreation 3 in 2018. He joins Sandy Koufax as the one Dodgers with a number of scoreless World Collection begins.
• In that 2018 begin, Buehler additionally allowed simply two hits. He’s the fourth pitcher with a number of scoreless World Collection outings of not less than 5 innings and two or fewer hits allowed, becoming a member of Madison Bumgarner, Warren Spahn and George Earnshaw.
• Let’s take it a step additional. Buehler additionally pitched Recreation 3 of the World Collection in 2020, permitting one run on three hits over six innings. He’s the one pitcher in World Collection historical past with three outings of not less than 5 innings and 4 or fewer baserunners allowed – and so they’re the primary three World Collection outings of his profession.
• A part of what saved Buehler scoreless was an help to house by Teoscar Hernández within the fourth. At 93.9 mph, it was the third-fastest tracked World Collection outfield help underneath Statcast (2015), behind 94.9 mph by Hunter Renfroe of the Rays in 2020 and 94.6 mph by the Rangers’ Adolis García final 12 months. It was additionally the third-fastest tracked outfield help of Hernández’s profession, together with the playoffs, behind a 94.8 mph help in 2016 and 94.0 mph in 2022.
• As famous above, there has not been a sweep in 11 consecutive World Collection, with the final sweep coming by the Giants within the 2012 World Collection over the Tigers. Eleven consecutive World Collection with no sweep is the second-longest such stretch in World Collection historical past, behind a 12-year streak from 1977-1988.
