2024 MLB World Series Preview (Sports)
October 25, 2024
The best-of-seven World Series starts off today with the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees facing off for the championship. The world gets the dream matchup between two of most legendary teams in sports history. This will be the 12th World Series meeting between these two teams, with the most recent matchup taking place in 1981. This will also be the first time in 11 years that the two No. 1 seeds are meeting in the World Series, and the first time since 2012 that the expected MVPs in each league are facing off with Aaron Judge for the the Yankees and Shohei Ohtani for the Dodgers.
2024 World Series
No. 1 Los Angeles Dodgers (NL) vs. No. 2 New York Yankees (AL)
- Going into the postseason there were questions marks about the Dodgers’ pitching staff because of injuries. However, the team has been able to overcome their shortcomings with the pitching throughout the post season. The Dodgers have strong relievers that can close out games, and Dave Roberts has been able to efficiently manage his bullpen. If the Dodgers win the World Series it will still come down to slugging from their entire lineup. Strong starting pitching from Jack Flaherty, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Walker Buehler will help the team, but the Dodgers need their batters to score runs.
- The three stars in Giancarlo Stanton, Juan Soto, and Aaron Judge have scored 10 of the Yankee’s 13 home runs and 25 of their 38 runs batted in so far in the postseason. The rest of the Yankees lineup will need to step up and score runs to keep up with the Dodgers. The Yankees have a pitching staff that can shutdown the Dodgers, and will need their star Gerrit Cole to pitch at his best for two or three games in the series.