The Los Angeles Dodgers will go with Jack Flaherty for Game 1 of the World Series, pinning him against New York Yankees ace and fellow Southern California product Gerrit Cole from Dodger Stadium on Friday night.
Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman, who has spent all month playing through a sprained right ankle, expects to be in the lineup. «I don't think there's any question on anybody's mind that I won't be in the lineup for Game 1,» Freeman said on a virtual call with the media on Tuesday.
Freeman played through noticeable pain when the National League Championship Series shifted to Queens, New York, for Games 3 to 5 and has produced just one hit in his last 15 postseason at-bats.
When the Dodgers returned home last Saturday, Freeman basically knew he'd be sitting out their eventual, pennant-clinching victory over the New York Mets in Game 6.