Dodgers-Yankees World Series Game 4 Stats, Interesting Facts

The Yankees become the first team since the Reds beat the Orioles in 1970 to force a Game 5 in a 3-0 loss in a World Series. Since then there have been nine searches.

Of the 41 teams to fall 3-0 in a best-of-seven postseason series, the Yankees are just the 10th to ever avoid a sweep. Of the previous nine players, four managed to force a Game 6 and two forced a Game 7, although neither occurred in the World Series.

Here's a look at 11 stats and facts from Game 4.

• That was the Anthony Volpe game. After being visibly upset with himself for not scoring Austin Wells' brace in the second half, he was given a chance at redemption in the third half – as the game so often does. He delivered the ninth World Series grand slam in Yankees history – seven more than any other team and the sixth in all of MLB this postseason – setting a single playoff game record.

• Volpe added a double in the eighth inning to lead off a five-run frame and also had two stolen bases. Volpe joined Eddie Collins as the second player with multiple extra base hits and stolen bases in a World Series game, doing so twice in 1910.

• Volpe became the first Yankee with a grand slam and multiple stolen bases in a game, regular season or postseason, since Mickey Mantle on August 19, 1962. He is the second in postseason history to do so succeeded, joining Shane Victorino in Game 2 of the 2008 NLDS.

• With Freddie Freeman's walk-off grand slam in Game 1, this – the 120th World Series – is only the fourth with multiple grand slams. It also happened in 1987 by Kent Hrbek and Dan Gladden, in 1964 by Ken Boyer and Joe Pepitone, and in 1956 by Yogi Berra and Bill “Moose” Skowron. 2024 and 1964 are the only times each team scored.

• According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Wells hit a home run in the sixth inning, becoming the fifth rookie with a World Series home run as a catcher. He joined Buster Posey in Game 4 in 2010, Rod Barajas in Game 5 in 2001, Bill DeLancey in Game 5 in 1934 and Wally Schang in Game 3 in 1913, which was the first home run by a catcher in Fall Classic history.

• Along with Will Smith in the fifth, this was the fifth World Series game with home runs by multiple catchers. The others were Game 2 in 2019 (Kurt Suzuki, Martín Maldonado), Game 5 in 1977 (Steve Yeager, Thurman Munson), Game 3 in 1975 (Carlton Fisk, Johnny Bench) and Game 5 in 1948 (Jim Hegan, Bill Salkeld).

• 11 runs were the Yankees' most in a World Series game since 1978, Game 5 (12). In between, they played 48 World Series games. Only 10 MLB franchises have even played 48 World Series games in total. It was also the second-most runs scored in an elimination game in Yankees postseason history. They scored 12 in Game 6 in 1960.

• Freddie Freeman came into the game having hit a home run in every game of the series and wasted no time adding Game 4 to the list again by getting the yardage in the first game. He was the first player to hit a home run in Games 1, 2, 3 and 4 of a World Series. The only other player to hit a home run in four consecutive games within a single World Series is George Springer in Games 4–7 of 2017.

• Freeman has now scored in six consecutive World Series games, dating back to 2021 with the Braves. That's the longest streak in the Fall Classic, breaking a tie with Springer. Freeman hit a home run in his final four games, breaking a tie with Bill Madlock in 1985 for the longest streak in Dodgers postseason history.

• He now has six home runs in the World Series in 10 games. That's tied with Springer, who had the second-most totals in a player's first nine career World Series games, behind only Chase Utley's seven.

• Freeman has 10 RBIs in the Series, passing Gil Hodges (1956) and Duke Snider (1952) for the most RBIs in a World Series in Dodgers history (RBI official since 1920). Snider and Hodges each had eight in seven games. This was Game 4. Freeman's 10 RBIs are also the most in the first four games of a World Series, ahead of Tony Fernandez (1993), Bobby Richardson (1960) and Lou Gehrig (1928), who each had nine. Richardson's total of 12 this year is the record for a single World Series.