NEW YORK — This World Series has reached a fork in the road for Game 3: Coronation or competition?
The New York Yankees will aim to pump life back into their season and revive hope that this Fall Classic will be an all-timer when they send Clarke Schmidt to the mound at Yankee Stadium to take on a Los Angeles Dodgers team that’s gotten increasingly hard to beat with each successive round.
The Dodgers take a 2-0 Series lead into the Bronx and will hand the baseball to playoff ace Walker Buehler in hopes of grabbing a likely insurmountable lead. Just keep the bullpens ready: Schmidt has pitched 4 ⅓ innings in each of his playoff outings, one a Yankee win, while Buehler pitched four arduous albeit shutout innings in Game 3 of the NLCS, keying the Dodgers’ six-game triumph.
Buehler is making his 18th career playoff start, and has struck out 107 batters across those 88 ⅔ innings. It’s also his third start in a World Series Game 3 and the Dodgers won the previous two, including their 18-inning win over the Boston Red Sox in 2018 after Buehler pitched seven shutout innings.
Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani is expected back in the lineup after suffering a shoulder subluxation in Game 2 on Saturday. Meanwhile, the Yankees hope Aaron Judge can reverse his 1-for-9, six-strikeout performance in the first two games.
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First pitch is scheduled for 8:08 p.m. ET on Monday at Yankee Stadiumm.
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Yankees lineup today: Game 3
- Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
- Juan Soto (L) RF
- Aaron Judge (R) CF
- Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
- Jazz Chisholm Jr. (L) 3B
- Anthony Volpe (R) SS
- Anthony Rizzo (L) 1B
- Jose Trevino (R) C
- Alex Verdugo (L) LF
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