A clash of the Titans. A meeting of Goliaths. An old-fashioned, heavy-weight bout.
In the build up to this year’s World Series, there was no cliché too excessive for the moment. No superlative too grand to oversell the matchup.
Dodgers vs. Yankees. Shohei Ohtani vs. Aaron Judge. Baseball’s annual Fall Classic, under a spotlight like few recent others.
And then, in Game 1 on Friday night, it began in the most dramatic way possible.
With one 10th-inning swing, Freddie Freeman etched his name in Dodgers’ October lore.