For some reason, my dad was watching the baseball game with me.
I don't usually watch TV. HE usually watched TV at that time, whether it was a women's volleyball game, a random action movie, a random UAAP game, or even a Korean drama series.
I watch TV for the baseball games, and how awesome was Game 1 of the Best-of-7 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees.
I get why managers also have their numbers.
It’s because they have their battles against the other managers, as well as their players.
When I saw that it was the Yankees versus the Dodgers, the first thought I had was the battle of the hitters. The triumvirate of Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, and Freeman versus Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, and Juan Soto. That said, Jazz Chisholm and Anthony Vulpe are awesome, and of course, I am a fan of Tommy Edman, Will Smith, Gavin Lux, Teoscar Hernandez, and Kike Hernandez.
Again, my re-introduction to Major League Baseball was the Dodgers.
I’ve always been a Yankees fan though. Particularly, the core that had Derek Jeter, Alfonso Soriano, Mariano Rivera, and Andy Pettite.
Poor Nestor Cortes. I just realized how insane for the managers to choose the batters that they would intentionally walk. Cortes was seldom used up until that time and was unfortunately the pitcher on the mound when the Yankees decided to walk Mookie Betts to fill up the bases.
Anyway, the Dodgers get first blood in the first Yankees versus Dodgers series since 1981.