LOS ANGELES — Gleyber Torres looked into his glove. There was nothing in it but a gigantic missed opportunity.
World Series Game 1 on Friday night was an instant classic, a heavyweight brawl capped off by a knockout blow for the ages. Freddie Freeman’s walk-off grand slam is, appropriately, what will live on in the minds and highlight reels of baseball fans everywhere.
But that historic swing, which gave the Dodgers a 6-3 win, was only made possible by a crucial Yankees misplay two innings earlier.
With the Yankees hanging onto a one-run lead with one out in the eighth, presumptive National League MVP Shohei Ohtani clobbered a soggy changeup off the wall.