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Yankees vs. Dodgers Game 1 score, live updates: World Series between two legendary franchises begins in Los Angeles

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Yankees vs. Dodgers Game 1 score, live updates: World Series between two legendary franchises begins in Los Angeles

It’s the final showdown of the Major League Baseball season, and as the leaves change color, this year’s World Series will take on the familiar shades of Dodger Blue and Yankee pinstripes. For the twelfth time – their first meeting took place in 1941 – the Yankees and Dodgers will face each other in the World Series.

Their most recent World Series meeting in 1981 will have particularly special significance this year Friday match 1 comes just days later the death of Dodgers legend Fernando Valenzuelawho was the rookie star of the 1981 championship team at the height of ‘Fernandomania’.

As much as the story on the tape in this series might be about the names and logos on the front of the uniforms, this year’s matchup is about the newcomers in this storied baseball rivalry. Shohei Ohtani participates in the World Series for the first time in his first season with the Dodgers, and Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton also make their first appearances with the Yankees.

Both clubs have been off for almost a week, so the pitching staff is ready to take on the two teams that finished the regular season with the best records in their respective leagues. In Game 1, Gerrit Cole (1-0, 3.31 ERA, 16.1 IP, 12 K, 6 BB in 2024 postseason) takes the ball for the Yankees against Jack Flaherty (1-2, 7.04 ERA, 15.1 IP, 8 K, 7 BB ) for the Dodgers.

  • Time: 8:08 PM ET

  • Location: Dodger Stadium | Los Angeles

  • TV channel: Fox

  • Streaming: Fox Sports App, Fubo

Live43 updates

  • Pitcher’s duel through 4

    Gerrit Cole has matched Jack Flaherty’s four scoreless innings and has done so with nine fewer pitches, with Cole at 51 to Flaherty’s 60. We also just saw Cole’s fastest pitch of the night: a 90-mph fastball to score a ​Freddie Freeman’s shattered bat to get the second of the fourth inning.

    Both pitchers are rolling, but at some point someone has to blink.

  • And there’s also a scoreless fourth inning. Here are the lines of both pitchers through four:

    Cole: 1 K, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 51 places

    Flaherty: 2 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 60 places

  • Jack Flaherty throws his best inning of the game so far. After needing 40 pitches to get through the first two innings, he needed 20 total to go 1-2-3 innings in the third and fourth.

    There’s still plenty of game left, but it’s been a pitchers’ duel so far at Dodger Stadium.

  • Gerrit Cole struck out Shohei Ohtani to keep the game scoreless for three innings. He’s up to 36 pitches, but has also allowed three fly balls of over 100 yards so far tonight.

  • Why does Tommy Edman get ninth if he was the NLCS MVP? Simply put, it’s the judge on the hill. Edman is a switch-hitter, but he has the deepest platoon split of anyone in the Dodgers lineup.

    It shows, with a pop-out for the second of the third inning. Cue Ohtani again.

  • Jack Flaherty canceled out an infield single by Gleyber Torres with a double play by Juan Soto (who, like him, had reached the full score) and then struck out Aaron Judge to make it scoreless at three.

    He is now in 52 places. The Dodgers have been aggressive with their bullpen all postseason, but they had Flaherty pitch seven innings in Game 1 of the NLCS. Since their bullpen is missing Evan Phillips, who was left out of the roster due to arm fatigue, they may want Flaherty to last a little longer than usual.

  • Today’s zone was… inconsistent.

  • Gerrit Cole mows through the 5-6-7 of the Dodgers lineup in the bottom of the second. Unlike Flaherty, he has 23 pitches in two scoreless innings.

  • Smooth sailing for Flaherty via 2 IP

    Jack Flaherty has made it through the first two innings of World Series Game 1 unscathed. Considering the Dodger starter was blown for eight runs in his last start, that’s a big deal.

    Flaherty’s fastball averaged 91 mph against the Mets that day. So far tonight the heat is at 94.2. How long Flaherty can maintain that speed in this outing will be something to keep an eye on.

  • Witness the emotional journey of a man running on an ankle who some feared would miss World Series games.

  • Flaherty works around the leadoff single and jumps over another comebacker at his feet from Alex Verdugo, to post a scoreless second.

    Flaherty has 40 places up to and including two. The Yankees haven’t gotten much hard contact from him, but they’re also working enough to keep this starting shot.

  • An Anthony Rizzo comebacker hits Jack Flaherty on the foot and that’s a painful first base runner in the second inning.

  • Freeman gets the first extra-base hit of October

    Freddie Freeman’s ankle looked better than it has all postseason as he took advantage of Alex Verdugo’s early miscue to reach third base in the first inning. A fully operational Freeman would be huge for the Dodgers.

  • Baseball is a wonderful sport.

  • Teoscar Hernandez hits a 93.7 mph line drive…straight to Anthony Volpe at point blank range to end the inning. No runs for the Dodgers, despite reasonable contact in the first inning.

  • Freddie Freeman, returning to the lineup after dealing with a bad ankle all postseason, gets the first goal of the game and moves into third place! Alex Verdugo missed the bounce off the wall, giving the veteran plenty of time to run.

    It is generously scored a triple.

  • And then a fly ball to the warning track to left field by Mookie Betts (caught by Alex Verdugo, who was traded to the Red Sox in exchange for Betts in 2020).

    The good news for the Yankees: two outs. The bad news: Dodgers hitters are already hitting it pretty deep from their ace.