Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz recaps an epic World Series Game 1.

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You see that ball game pretty, pretty wild.

It was the type of night that I feel blessed to have seen in person.

Game one of the 2024 World Series Dodgers Yankees capped off by the swing of a lifetime Freddie Freeman walk off grand slam with the Dodgers down one in the bottom of the 10th.

It literally sounds fake.

The first walk off grand slam in the history of the World Series getting this fall classic started right between the two biggest franchises in the sport, there was a ton of hype and while the early innings of this game were a little slow with both teams tossing of zeros Freeman delivered.

Now he's been nursing a bum ankle for most of this month and that meant that he entered tonight without an extra base hit.

He was limping around the bases a lot in the NL DS and the NL CS.

He was healthy enough to go tonight and it's a good thing he was because his swing was the difference in this ballgame.

Now, the Yankees opened the door, they were in the driver's seat, they were up 2 to 1 in the eighth inning, Otani, Shohei Otani in his first World Series game, just crushes one off the wall in right field.

Juan Soto picks it up, throws it into Glaber Torres who Lazily tries to scoop the ball backhanded it clangs off of his mitt pops up into the air.

Otani runs to third with one out and in this month, every 90 ft matters, Otani scored on a sack fly from the next batter.

Mookie Betts to tie the game and that's what sent it into extras where Freddie Freeman made everybody think about Kurt Gibson's iconic fist pumping home run way back when the Yankees want to claw their way back into this series, they're gonna need a little bit more from Aaron Judge.

Now those are high expectations but he is the captain of the New York Yankees and tonight he only had one hit.

It was a single, well hit but still just a single three runs is below the standard for this Yankees ball club for this lineup.

There's a lot more juice in there.

Giancarlo Stanton hit a home run.

I will never forget that.

Almost hit me all the way up here down the left field line but three runs just not enough.

Tomorrow.

Game two, Carlos Rodon going for the Yankees Yoshinobu Yamamoto going for the Dodgers.

It'll be a classic as good as tonight.

Uh Probably not, but I will be here to tell you all about it.

I'm Jake Mintz with Yahoo sports.

See you all later.

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