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Schadenfreude 354 (A Continuing Series)

Yankees Blow Game 1 Of World Series On Freddie Freeman's Walkoff Grand Slam
Mark W. Sanchez, Post

After a 15-year wait, the Yankees returned to the World Series with a classic.

And with the kind of emotional roller coaster and dizzying devastation that can only be delivered in October. . . .

[T]he Yankees squandered one-run leads in the eighth and 10th innings and let Game 1 slip through their fingers with one Freddie Freeman swing at a sold-out and shaking Dodger Stadium on Friday night.

The Yankees were stunned by a walk-off grand slam, Freeman pouncing on the first pitch he saw from Nestor Cortes, for a 6-3, gut-punch of a loss .