And then Kiké Hernández hits into a double play to end the inning. The Dodgers are challenging the out call at first base, and it looks like they have a case.

Max Muncy draws the Dodgers' first walk against Luis Gil. Much was made about Gil, the league leader in walks during the regular season, facing the top plate-discipline team in the lead, but he didn't issue his first free pass until the fourth inning.

Yankees fans had no issue with this one.

Yankee Stadium was absolutely dead. And the team was on the brink of elimination.

Anthony Volpe finally woke up the people of the Bronx with a huge grand slam. The Yankees and their fan base needed that badly.

Not the best start for the Dodgers' bullpen game.

After Volpe's baserunning error in the second, he finds redemption in the third. And more importantly, the Yankees' offense is finally breaking through the Dodgers' bullpen.

The Dodgers bet big on Hudson being able to get it done there after he looked shaky for multiple batters. It blew up in their faces, but they also have an offense that can clearly score three runs in six innings.

GRAND SLAM BY ANTHONY VOLPE. The Yankees' shortstop, who was moved down in the batting order today, comes through with a grand slam, his first homer since Sept. 21., to give the Yankees their first multi-run lead of the series.

Yankee Stadium needed that.

Rizzo hits an infield fly, and that's two outs. It will come down to Hudson against Anthony Volpe.

Stanton walks, and now Dodgers pitching coach Mark Prior is out to talk to Daniel Hudson. He will stay in to face Anthony Rizzo with the bases loaded and one out.

Landon Knack, a potential innings-eater for the Dodgers this game, is warming up.

Hudson throws another up-and-in pitch against Giancarlo Stanton and hits him on the hand, but Stanton swung. Instead of a HBP, it's a foul ball.

With Anthony Volpe on second, Austin Wells smashed a fastball deep to center field that clanged off the fence, seemingly setting up an easy run scored for Volpe. But Volpe barely went halfway to third base while the ball was in the air and then misread it when it crashed off the wall beyond the outstretched glove of Enrique Hernandez, leaving him stuck between second and third — and not giving himself nearly enough time to score.

Volpe ended up at third base and scored shortly thereafter on an Alex Verdugo groundout, but it was still an inexcusable baserunning blunder that exemplifies New York's trouble on the basepaths all season long. The Yankees' inability to do the little things well has hurt them time and time again in this series.

An update on Mookie Betts' friends in the right-field stands.

Jazz Chisholm hits another near-homer to right field, but a perfect play by Mookie Betts prevents Judge from scoring and Chisholm from taking second base. Still, runners on the corners with one out for the Yankees.

Daniel Hudson throws up and in and gets Aaron Judge's hand on a check swing. It's a free base for the Yankees, but probably more pain than you'd want for an already struggling hitter.

Daniel Hudson will come in for Ben Casparius with the 2-3-4 of the Yankees' order due up. The Dodgers are likely throwing everything they can at the Yankees tonight as long as they have the lead.

Freddie Freeman flies out to shallow right to end the top of the third. Freeman making an out is news at this point.

Yankees fans are chanting "F*** you Freddie." They have not appreciated what he's done to their favorite ball club.

Shohei Ohtani hits a fly ball to the warning track. It's caught by Aaron Judge, but that's a decent sign that his shoulder isn't hurting him too badly.

Volpe was just doing what the Yankees have done all season.

Volpe scores on an RBI groundout from Alex Verdugo, but that's all the Yankees will get in the bottom of the second, as Gleyber Torres flies out to end the inning.

Dodgers have Daniel Hudson, one of their better arms, warming, likely in case this rally reaches the top of the order.

Word is still spreading about Freddie Freeman.

Austin Wells crushed a near-homer to center field with Anthony Volpe at second base, and Volpe somehow doesn't score.

An awful display of baserunning leaves the Yankees with two runners in scoring position and one out, but that's going to loom big if they can't convert here.

There's a huge break for the Yankees. With Lux still at second, Tommy Edman hit another line drive down the right-field line. A different placement would have scored a run, but Anthony Rizzo instead hauls it in and doubles off Lux to end the inning.

Gil is at 38 pitches through two innings.

Yankees already scrambling the jets after a leadoff double by Gavin Lux.

Jazz Chisholm Jr. advances the runners with a groundout, but another groundout by Giancarlo Stanton leaves the Yankees scoreless in the first. And with the Dodgers up 2-0, they might be using their top arms tonight.

You know what, the Yankees will take that. Judge falls behind 0-2, then works a walk to put two on with one out against Ben Casparius. Yankees threatening to respond after Freeman's homer.

Here is the fan, who will be more famous tomorrow than he was yesterday.

Aaron Judge receives a nice ovation from Yankee Stadium amid another brutal postseason. A nice moment from a crowd that desperately needs him to hit like something resembling an MVP.

Gleyber Torres leads off with an out via fan interference. He hit a foul ball into right field that Mookie Betts caught next to the stands ... and then a Yankees fan yanked the ball out of his glove with both hands.

Luis Gil gets out of the first without further damage, but the Yankees now need yet another comeback.

It wasn't the longest homer, but it was in Yankee Stadium. Freeman's hit would've been a flyout or a double in 25 parks.

Freddie Freeman will be your World Series MVP if the Dodgers win tonight. He hits a two-run homer to put L.A. up early and is now the first player to hit a homer in the first four games of a World Series, as well as homer in six straight World Series games.

Shohei Ohtani flies out, but Mookie Betts follows with a double, and the Dodgers have a runner in scoring position with Freddie Freeman up.

Luis Gil fires a 97 mph fastball to Shohei Ohtani, and we're off in Game 4 of the 2024 World Series. No rapper-induced delays tonight.

Ohtani's health remains a question in this series, even if he reached base a couple of times in Game 3.

Paul O'Neill's first pitch was so bad he threw a second one to A.J. Burnett.

The Dodgers could have some interesting decisions to make tonight. They're starting Ben Casparius and have Landon Knack waiting in the wings, and both pitchers could throw multiple innings.

If the Dodgers take the lead in those innings, they will probably throw everything at the Yankees to end this series tonight. But if they're down, they might be fine resting their bullpen as much as they can, with favorable matchups approaching in the later games.

Three homers in three World Series games (plus two more in his previous two World Series games) will do that.

In short, not good if you're a Yankees fan.

A total of 24 teams have taken a 3-0 lead in the World Series. Of those, 21 ended the series in Game 4, while the other three won the title in Game 5. The Yankees would make history just by sending this series back to Los Angeles.

In the broader history of 3-0 leads, teams with that advantage have won the seven-game series 39 out of 40 times. You probably already know the exception: the 2004 Boston Red Sox's comeback against the Yankees, which hinged on a steal by Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. So it would be quite the reversal of fortune if the Yankees pull that off.

Only one other team has even tied a series after being down 3-0: the 2020 Houston Astros' near-win over the Tampa Bay Rays in the ALCS. The Rays went on to win Game 7.

The team on the verge of winning a World Series is starting Ben Casparius, a 25-year-old rookie who made three total appearances in the regular season. He will be the opener in a bullpen game for the Dodgers against Yankees rookie Luis Gil.

This is the Dodgers' fourth bullpen game of the postseason, and they won two of their first three. That's despite having Landon Knack, another rookie who was solid in 12 regular-season starts. The Dodgers are doing this because they would rather lean on their bullpen than start a starting pitcher they don't trust.

The Dodgers have only three starting pitchers because of a cavalcade of injuries to their rotation that could either indicate significant structural issues in their organization or some sort of "Homer at the Bat"-style curse. Here are some starting pitchers who were unavailable this postseason due to injuries: Tyler Glasnow, Gavin Stone, Clayton Kershaw, Bobby Miller, River Ryan, Dustin May and Tony Gonsolin.

The Yankees are making an odd little adjustment with their backs against the wall. Their lineup today has switched usual cleanup hitter Giancarlo Stanton with No. 5 hitter Jazz Chisholm Jr., with Game 3 No. 6 hitter Anthony Volpe and No. 7 hitter Anthony Rizzo also switching. Both are swaps of lefty and righty hitters.

Stanton has been amazing this postseason and recorded the Yankees' biggest hit of this series with his two-run homer in Game 1. Aaron Judge, who is 6-for-43 with 20 strikeouts this postseason, is still hitting third behind Juan Soto.

Ben Casparius and Luis Gil will be the starting pitchers.