The Yankees needed one man to step up of their darkest hour. They spotted the Dodgers two runs — again — when Freddie Freeman planted one in the correct field bleachers — again. A cold night had turned even colder because now there was a touch of winter lurking on the opposite side of midnight.
Until Anthony Volpe said: Not yet.
With one swing, a wonderful third-inning swat that landed within the left-field stands and cleared the bases, Volpe paved the best way for an 11-4 victory that extends the Yankees season at the very least yet another game, narrowing the gap on this one hundred and twentieth World Series to three-games-to-one, keeping them in play.
One thing that was certain because the Yankees reported for work Tuesday afternoon for Game 5 of the one hundred and twentieth World Series at Yankee Stadium: In the event that they were going to — Aaron Boone’s words — “shock the world” in the times ahead, they were going to must win an elimination game Tuesday night.
It was the twenty third elimination game the Yankees have faced of their World Series history. It’s the eleventh win. Each of those are greater than anyone else. They’ll get one other one Wednesday, the last of a line that appears like this:
1921 (0-1 in elimination games): Trailing 4-3 within the Series — which was best-of eight on the time — the Yankees and Waite Hoyt lose a 1-0 heartbreaker because the home team on the Polo Grounds when the Giants rating a first-inning run and Art Nehf throws a four-hitter.
1922 (0-1): Once more Nehf goes the space, beating the Yankees, 5-3, to finish a sweep for the Giants (though there was also a tie thrown into the combination; Giants won, 4-0-1).
1926 (0-1): In a do-or-die Game 7, the Cardinals’ Grover Cleveland Alexander wins his famous bases-loaded duel with Tony Lazzeri within the seventh, and the series ends, stunningly, when Babe Ruth is caught attempting to steal second.
1942 (0-1): Trailing 3-1 to the Cardinals in Game 5 but tied 2-2 within the ninth at Yankee Stadium, Red Ruffing surrenders a two-run homer to St. Louis’ Whitey Kurowski that delivers the Series to the Cards.
1947 (1-0): In the primary Game 7 the Yankees ever compete in, they overcome an early 2-0 Dodgers advantage in front of 71,548 on the Stadium behind key hits from Phil Rizzuto, Bobby Brown and Tommy Henrich and five innings of one-hit relief from Joe Page.
1952 (2-0): Down 3-2 to Brooklyn, the Yankees win two straight at Ebbets Field with Allie Reyolds earning the save in Game 6 and the win the subsequent day in Game 7.
1955 (1-1): Whitey Ford throws a four-hitter and Moose Skowron hits a homer to maintain the season entering into Game 6 at Yankee Stadium before Johnny Podres, Sandy Amoros and Gil Hodges deliver Next Yr to the Dodgers the subsequent day.
1956 (1-0): The Yankees bomb Don Newcombe, 9-0, in Game 7 at Ebbets Field behind two home runs by Yogi Berra.
1957 (0-1): Ex-Yankee Lew Burdette wins his third game of the Series, scattering seven hits in a 5-0 win at Yankee Stadium that brought the Milwaukee Braves their only title.
1958 (2-0): The Yankees win Games 6 and seven at Milwaukee’s County Stadium to change into only the second team to beat a 3-1 deficit in games in a World Series.
Follow The Post’s coverage of the Yankees within the postseason:
1960 (1-1): Ford keeps the Yankees alive with a 12-0 shutout in Game 6 before they run into Pirates Hall of Famer Bill Mazeroski in the underside of the ninth in Game 7 at Forbes Field.
1962 (1-0): The winning run scores on a Tony Kubek double play and the Yankees survive when Willie McCovey’s two-out ninth inning rocket is torched but hit right at Bobby Richardson, saving two runs.
1964 (1-1): Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and Joe Pepitone hit home runs to back Jim Bouton in Game 6 at St. Louis’ Sportsman Park, however the Cardinals ride Bob Gibson to the finish line in Game 7.
1976 (0-1): The Series that, through three games, is eerily just like this one. The Reds close out the sweep behind two home runs from Johnny Bench.
1981 (0-1): In a 1-1 game, Bob Lemon decides to pinch-hit for Tommy John with two on and two out within the fourth. The Dodgers beat George Frazier for the third time and take a 9-2 victory.
2001 (0-1): Luis Gonzalez punches one over a drawn-in infield off Mariano Rivera and the Diamondbacks win their only championship in Game 7, 3-2.
2003 (0-1): Jack McKeon takes of venture and throws Josh Beckett on three days rest at Yankee Stadium and Beckett responds with a six-hit, complete-game shutout because the Marlins finish a surprising Series upset of the Yankees in six games with a 2-0 win.
2024 (1-0): To date.
The Yankees needed one man to step up of their darkest hour. They spotted the Dodgers two runs — again — when Freddie Freeman planted one in the correct field bleachers — again. A cold night had turned even colder because now there was a touch of winter lurking on the opposite side of midnight.
Until Anthony Volpe said: Not yet.
With one swing, a wonderful third-inning swat that landed within the left-field stands and cleared the bases, Volpe paved the best way for an 11-4 victory that extends the Yankees season at the very least yet another game, narrowing the gap on this one hundred and twentieth World Series to three-games-to-one, keeping them in play.
One thing that was certain because the Yankees reported for work Tuesday afternoon for Game 5 of the one hundred and twentieth World Series at Yankee Stadium: In the event that they were going to — Aaron Boone’s words — “shock the world” in the times ahead, they were going to must win an elimination game Tuesday night.
It was the twenty third elimination game the Yankees have faced of their World Series history. It’s the eleventh win. Each of those are greater than anyone else. They’ll get one other one Wednesday, the last of a line that appears like this:
1921 (0-1 in elimination games): Trailing 4-3 within the Series — which was best-of eight on the time — the Yankees and Waite Hoyt lose a 1-0 heartbreaker because the home team on the Polo Grounds when the Giants rating a first-inning run and Art Nehf throws a four-hitter.
1922 (0-1): Once more Nehf goes the space, beating the Yankees, 5-3, to finish a sweep for the Giants (though there was also a tie thrown into the combination; Giants won, 4-0-1).
1926 (0-1): In a do-or-die Game 7, the Cardinals’ Grover Cleveland Alexander wins his famous bases-loaded duel with Tony Lazzeri within the seventh, and the series ends, stunningly, when Babe Ruth is caught attempting to steal second.
1942 (0-1): Trailing 3-1 to the Cardinals in Game 5 but tied 2-2 within the ninth at Yankee Stadium, Red Ruffing surrenders a two-run homer to St. Louis’ Whitey Kurowski that delivers the Series to the Cards.
1947 (1-0): In the primary Game 7 the Yankees ever compete in, they overcome an early 2-0 Dodgers advantage in front of 71,548 on the Stadium behind key hits from Phil Rizzuto, Bobby Brown and Tommy Henrich and five innings of one-hit relief from Joe Page.
1952 (2-0): Down 3-2 to Brooklyn, the Yankees win two straight at Ebbets Field with Allie Reyolds earning the save in Game 6 and the win the subsequent day in Game 7.
1955 (1-1): Whitey Ford throws a four-hitter and Moose Skowron hits a homer to maintain the season entering into Game 6 at Yankee Stadium before Johnny Podres, Sandy Amoros and Gil Hodges deliver Next Yr to the Dodgers the subsequent day.
1956 (1-0): The Yankees bomb Don Newcombe, 9-0, in Game 7 at Ebbets Field behind two home runs by Yogi Berra.
1957 (0-1): Ex-Yankee Lew Burdette wins his third game of the Series, scattering seven hits in a 5-0 win at Yankee Stadium that brought the Milwaukee Braves their only title.
1958 (2-0): The Yankees win Games 6 and seven at Milwaukee’s County Stadium to change into only the second team to beat a 3-1 deficit in games in a World Series.
Follow The Post’s coverage of the Yankees within the postseason:
1960 (1-1): Ford keeps the Yankees alive with a 12-0 shutout in Game 6 before they run into Pirates Hall of Famer Bill Mazeroski in the underside of the ninth in Game 7 at Forbes Field.
1962 (1-0): The winning run scores on a Tony Kubek double play and the Yankees survive when Willie McCovey’s two-out ninth inning rocket is torched but hit right at Bobby Richardson, saving two runs.
1964 (1-1): Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and Joe Pepitone hit home runs to back Jim Bouton in Game 6 at St. Louis’ Sportsman Park, however the Cardinals ride Bob Gibson to the finish line in Game 7.
1976 (0-1): The Series that, through three games, is eerily just like this one. The Reds close out the sweep behind two home runs from Johnny Bench.
1981 (0-1): In a 1-1 game, Bob Lemon decides to pinch-hit for Tommy John with two on and two out within the fourth. The Dodgers beat George Frazier for the third time and take a 9-2 victory.
2001 (0-1): Luis Gonzalez punches one over a drawn-in infield off Mariano Rivera and the Diamondbacks win their only championship in Game 7, 3-2.
2003 (0-1): Jack McKeon takes of venture and throws Josh Beckett on three days rest at Yankee Stadium and Beckett responds with a six-hit, complete-game shutout because the Marlins finish a surprising Series upset of the Yankees in six games with a 2-0 win.
2024 (1-0): To date.
