Gerrit Cole (New York Yankees) and Jack Flaherty (Los Angeles Dodgers) will take the sector for Game 1 of the 2024 World Series Friday night time at Dodger Stadium (8:08 p.m. ET on FOX and the FOX Sports app).
Cole, a six-time All-Star in his fifth season with the Yankees, missed the primary 11 weeks of the MLB common season with an elbow harm in his throwing arm (proper). In his 17 begins, the 2023 American League Cy Young winner posted a 3.41 ERA, 1.13 WHIP and 99 strikeouts in 95.0 innings. He adopted that up by posting a 3.31 ERA and 12 strikeouts in 16.1 innings in his first three postseason begins, highlighted by yielding only one run in seven innings in New York’s Game 4 win over the Kansas City Royals within the AL Division Series.
On the opposite hand, the Dodgers acquired Flaherty from the Detroit Tigers in July. In 10 common season begins for the Dodgers, Flaherty posted a 3.58 ERA, 1.28 WHIP and 61 strikeouts in 55.1 innings. However, the postseason has been a combined bag for Flaherty; he surrendered 4 runs and eight runs in separate video games that occurred between a seven-inning scoreless pitch in opposition to the New York Mets in Game 1 of the NL Championship Series, good for a mixed postseason ERA of seven.04.
Now that you recognize each starters from Game 1, let’s dig slightly deeper and see how each groups carried out in opposition to these two right-handers.
Here’s how the Dodgers hitters fared in opposition to Cole (Andy Pages by no means confronted him):
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- Teoscar Hernández: One dwelling run, one RBI, seven strikeouts, .192/.250/.346 slash line (26 at-bats)
- Kiké Hernández: One dwelling run, one RBI, three strikeouts, .381/.480/.667 slash line (21 at-bats)
- Shohei Ohtani: one dwelling run, three RBI, seven strikeouts, .200/.238/.400 slash line (20 at-bats)
- Freddie Freeman: One dwelling run, two RBI, seven strikeouts .350/.409/.650 slash line (20 at-bats)
- Mookie Betts: zero dwelling runs, one RBI, one strikeout, .412/.444/.471 slash line (17 at-bats)
- Chris Taylor: zero dwelling runs, zero RBI, three strikeouts, .000/.000/.000 slash line (six at-bats)
- Tommy Edman: zero dwelling runs, zero RBI, two strikeouts, .000/.000/.000 slash line (5 at-bats)
- Will Smith: zero dwelling runs, zero RBI, one strikeout, .333/.333/.333 slash line (three at-bats)
- Max Muncy: zero dwelling runs, zero RBI, two strikeouts, .000/.400/.000 slash line (three at-bats)
Here’s how Yankees hitters fared in opposition to Flaherty (Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Austin Wells have by no means confronted him):
- Anthony Rizzo: three dwelling runs, six RBI, two strikeouts, .429/.571/.905 slash line (21 at-bats)
- Juan Soto: zero dwelling runs, one RBI, three strikeouts, .111/.467/.222 slash line (9 at-bats)
- Alex Verdugo: zero dwelling runs, one RBI, zero strikeouts, .250/.200/.250 slash line (4 at-bats)
- Gleyber Torres: zero dwelling runs, zero RBI, zero strikeouts, .333/.333/.333 slash line (three at-bats)
- Anthony Volpe: zero dwelling runs, zero RBI, one strikeout, .000/.000/.000 slash line (two at-bats)
- Oswaldo Cabrera: zero dwelling runs, zero RBI, zero strikeouts, .500/.500/.500 slash line (two at-bats)
- Jon Berti: zero dwelling runs, zero RBI, one strikeout, .000/.000/.000 slash line (two at-bats)
- Jazz Chisholm: zero dwelling runs, zero RBI, one strikeout, .000/.500/.000 slash line (one at bat)
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