Yankees vs. Dodgers predictions, World Series picks, best bets: Can Aaron Judge finally break out in Game 5?

NEW YORK – Hey, the Yankees won a game. This means that teams in best-of-seven playoff series that started the series 3-0 have won Game 4 31 of 41 times. The Yankees are in rarefied air. It's obviously an incredibly tall order to think that they can come back and win the series, but it's actually possible that they could make this interesting or even great series. No World Series team trailing 3-0 has ever forced a Game 6.

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Yankees at Dodgers, 8:08 p.m. ET

RHP Gerrit Cole vs. RHP Jack Flaherty

Cole was great in Game 1, allowing just one run in six innings and, in fact, there were many questions about whether Yankees manager Aaron Boone took him out of the game rather than keeping him in the game since he had not yet reached 90 pitches . It's always possible that a team seeing Cole for the second time in five games will feel more comfortable, but it's also possible that he'll act like an ace again. For what it's worth, he's been much better away from home this season than at home.

Flaherty gave up two runs in the final game but was scoreless on five runs. He allowed the two-run bomb to Giancarlo Stanton when he saw the lineup a third time. Given that the Dodgers didn't use Blake Treinen, Alex Vesia, Michael Kopech, Anthony Banda, or Brusdar Graterol in Game 4, I would expect a shorter stint from Flaherty regardless of how he hits. That would be the exact same six pitchers that worked in Game 1.

The piece: Freddie Freeman over 1.5 hits + runs + RBI (-115)

Look, at this point you just have to ride the wave. Sure, he'll stop hitting home runs at some point, but he's so locked in right now that there's no reason to turn away.

On the other end of the spectrum…

The piece: Aaron Judge over 2.5 hits + runs + RBI (+110)

Judge is too good a player to continue to fight as fiercely as he has. There were some good signs in Game 4 too. He drew a walk, narrowly missed a somewhat deep flyout, and then hit a really hard drive for an RBI single in his final at-bat. It could really do wonders for him to end the night with a low-leverage RBI hit and a Yankees win to clear his head. I just have a feeling he's going to get out.