The 2024 world series has not been living up to the hype it was supposed to be. The Yankees against the Dodgers was supposed to be one of the biggest world series in a while with two of the biggest franchises going up against each other. The first game of the world series started off amazingly with a close and competitive game leading in a walk off home run from Freddie Freeman for the Dodgers. This set the expectation of how close the games in the world series would be and how even the games were getting baseball fans excited for the next upcoming games in the world series.
The next game did not live up to the first game with the Yankees looking like they did not want to play and having uncompetitive at bats. One of the stars and faces of the world series Shohei Otani got hurt attempting to steal a base and managed to injure his shoulder trying to swim around the tag. Ohtani was taken out for the remainder of game 2. After the third inning of game 2 both teams stopped scoring and it didn’t feel like a postseason game with how little emotion there was in the game.
The other star of the world series Aaron Judge has been under performing the entire postseason where the games count. Aaron has 46 at bats and only seven of those have been hits and twenty of them have been strikeouts leading to only a .150 batting average and almost 50% strikeout rate. Aaron Judge has been letting down the fans and his team by underperforming and lowering the excitement of the games.
The third game was even more competitive than the first two. Aaron Judge looked like he didn’t want to play some with the whole Yankees team. The Yankees have one of the strongest offenses in the league and were shut out for 8 innings. The Yankees also made one of the biggest base running errors in the world series. Stanton was on second and he is known to be one of the slowest players in the league and a single was hit to shallow left field and the third base coach sent Stanton when the fielder had the ball and he got thrown out by a mile. This stopped all of the momentum to have the Yankees compete and it just looked like a mess. The Yankees are down 0-3 and no team has ever come back from a 0-3 start in the world series so it looks like the Yankees season has ended in one of the most boring and uncompetitive series ever.
