Yankees, Dodgers matchup set for World Series

Hour 3 of The Craig Way Show begins with a look at the 2024 World Series featuring two of the most popular baseball teams in the world: the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers

Episode Transcript

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Our number three, and in our number three of the program,
we have a mixed bag, a little more on the NFL,
and also we'll hear more from Long Horn's head coach,
Steve Sarkashan coming off today's weekly press conference part of
our Long Horns Monday And of course we begin our

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Long Horns Monday coverage at eleven o'clock in the morning
every Monday from the UT campus and Cam and I
are over there along with Mike Hardball Harge, and then
we bring you the press conference live at the bottom
of the hour at eleven thirty with sark And then
we know a lot of folks can't hear it at
that time, so what we do is we bring you

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in SoundBite form the answers that he had to the
questions of the news conference, and we're going to have
that coming your way here in a little bit. But
also we're going to preview the World Series. Gene Watson,
our MLB insider in the Chicago White Sox front office
who correctly predicted that it would be the Dodgers against

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the Yankees once he got to the NLC. Yes, now,
when the playoffs began, he had the padres and guardians
but after the Padres who won the wild Card sweeping Atlanta,
then after they lost to the Dodgers. I told him
he could have a chance to waffle and reconnect, and

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he did and picked Los Angeles, and he came off
as Guardians pick, even though they had won their division series.
Came off of that and said he was going to
go with the Yankees to win. So it is the
Yankees and the Dodgers and they're playing. They will be
meeting in the World Series for the twelfth time. That's

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more than any other two teams have faced off against
one another. So it'll be and but it's the first
time since nineteen eighty one. And if you go back
over the history of those teams, the Yankees dominated it
for many years. Here was an interesting number I think
I saw the Yankees and Dodgers met. I think it

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was eleven times in forty years. That's a lot. Between
nineteen forty one and nineteen eighty one. They met eleven times.
First time they met nineteen forty one. Yankees won it
in five games, had two very memorable moments in it.
One in I believe it was Game three. Bill Bevins,

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who had been kind of a journeyman Guy had carried
a no hitter into the ninth even though he had
allowed one run, had a no hitter going, and the
Dodgers broke it up with a cookie lava jetto double
off the wall at Ebbittsfield, and the Dodgers won that game.
But the very next game was when it looked like
the Dodgers were gonna win. They were up in the
ninth and a drop third strike allowed a runner to

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reach and the Yankees ended up I think scoring three
runs in the inning, and they won that anyway. They
then wrapped up the series the next day they won
in five games. They met in nineteen forty seven. That
was actually the Bevans no hitters nineteen forty seven, not
forty one. In forty seven, Bevans carried the no hitter
into the ninth and the Dodgers beat him. But also
in nineteen forty seven, there's this incredible catch that Aljianfrido,

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the center fielder, made right at the four fifteen mark
there in the canyons in centerfield Yankee Stadium, which would
have been a three run homer from Joe DiMaggio, and
he hauled it down and I believe in Game six,
and Demaggio in what was described as the only show
of emotion ever in his entire Major league career, we

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see him kick the dirt like right near second base.
He was rounding second when it was caught or nearing second.
But the Yankees won that in seven games nineteen forty nine,
each team won a game, the first two games by
a one to nothing final score. Game one, game two,
Yankees won, the next three they won. Nineteen fifty two,

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Yankees won it six games. What preserved it diving in
a little pop up with a young second basement by
the name of Billy Martin nineteen fifty three. Actually, I
guess was the Billy Martin when that was in six games.
In seven games and fifty two, the Yankees won, So
they won all these in a row. The Dodgers finally
broke through in nineteen fifty five, Brooklyn's only World championship.

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They used to say, wait till next year. Next year
finally arrived. The Dodgers won it in seven games. In
fifty five, Sandy Amios with a great running catch near
the wall to take away what would have been a
double to give the Yankees the lead or a triple
off the bat of Yogi Bearra, but he made the catch,
and they said he never would have made the catch

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had he not been left handed with the glove on
the right hand running toward the foul pole that made
the catch. Yankees came back the next year in fifty
six and beat him in seven games. Highlighted Game five
the only perfect game World Series history, and Don Larson
did that. A journeyman did that in Game five. The
next time they met, the Dodgers were in Los Angeles.

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It was nineteen sixty three and La was Sandy Kofax.
Don Drysdale swept the Yankees, who had Mickey Mantle of course,
and Roger Marrison all of those, but the Dodgers swept them.
See only time one side has swept the other that
they met twice in nineteen seventy seven to seventy eight,
back to back years. Great ESPN thirty for thirty documentary

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called the Bronx Zoo and it was something else and
Reggie Jackson hits the five home runs. In seventy seven
and seventy eight they went again. So the Yankees won
those two back to back, but in the last time
they met nineteen eighty one was the strike year, and
the Dodgers dropped the first two games of the series
in New York and then won four straight, becoming the
first team in MLB history two win four consecutive games

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to win a World Series after dropping the first two.
So they met at times. The Yankees have won eight
of those, but since the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles,
the last four times that they've met have been when
the Dodgers played in LA. They've split those four, so
that sets the backdrop for that. So's that's how to be,
and we'll see how it goes. Starting Friday night in

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Los Angeles. Games one and two Friday and Saturday at
Dodgers Stadium. Sunday's a travel day. They'll play Monday Tuesday.
If necessary, Wednesday Game five in the Bronx at the
Yankee Stadium. If it has to go back to LA
for a game six, there'd be a travel day on Thursday.
They would play Friday, November first, and if they have

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a final game, it would be Saturday. A seventh game
would be Saturday, November second. So it's set the stage
for that. But how did they get there? And who
could win this thing? Coming up. We'll visit with Gene Watson,
our MLB insider, to talk about it, and then we're
going to hear more from Long One, said coach Steve Sarkesan.
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