The Boston Red Sox honored longtime radio voice Joe Castiglione, who called his final game Sunday, with an on-field pregame ceremony. The 77-year-old Castiglione, who was honored by the Baseball Hall of Fame this summer with the Ford C. Frick Award, has been the team’s lead radio v-retiring-after-42-years
The stage is set for a bicoastal showdown for the 2024 World Series. The New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers will face off for the championship title starting Oct. 25, if you want to attend any of the games in New York or L.A. in person, be prepared to cough up quite a bit of cash.
According to ticket sales site Gametime, the cheapest ticket for the opening game at Dodger Stadium on Friday currently sits at $1,209. It’s a similar story on SeatGeek, where the best ticket deal is $1,216 a pop. Game 2 is even more expensive, with top deck Gametime tickets running $1,260 each and SeatGeek selling for $1,264. The numbers continue to climb with each game. Needless to say, expect any Game 7 tickets to cost more than your rent.
It’ll be a highly anticipated battle between two powerhouse teams from the biggest cities in the U.S. Last month, Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani made history as the first MLB player to score 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a single season; the team ended the regular season with 98 wins and 64 losses, the best record in the league this year.
The Yankees have similarly had a spectacular season thanks to heavy hitters like Aaron Judge, notching 94 wins and 68 losses this year. This year marks the 12th time in history the Dodgers and Yankees have faced off in the World Series and the first time since 1981.
“It’s kind of what the people wanted,” Dodgers player Mookie Betts told the MLB of the matchup. “It’s what we all want. It’s fun. A battle of two good teams, a lot of long flights across the country, but that’s what makes it fun.”
The Yankees’ Aaron Judge echoed a similar sentiment regarding himself and Ohtani, the two biggest names in the sport today, going head-to-head in their first-ever World Series. “That’s what it’s all about,” Judge said. “That’s what you grind all season for—for moments like this. It’s something special.
The Boston Red Sox have multiple holes on the roster to fill with just a few days to do so before the 2024 Major League Baseball trade deadline.
Boston will be buyers ahead of the deadline despite a slow start to the second half of the season. Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow made it known that Boston is open for business and wants to add and now there are just five days to go until the deadline.
he Red Sox’s biggest needs are another starting pitcher, a right-handed bat, and possibly one more reliever. It will be tough to fill all three of these holes, but it always could happen.
One player the Red Sox should consider to help in the bullpen is former top prospect Michael Kopech. He currently pitches for the Chicago White Sox but is expected to be moved, according to The Athletic’s Aaron Gleeman and Tim Britton.
“It’s just not going to happen for Michael Kopech in Chicago, but surely some team is convinced it can fix a former top-20 prospect with a triple-digit fastball and 12 strikeouts per nine innings,” Gleeman and Britton said. “Whether starting or relieving, he’s been doomed by too many homers and walks, but Kopech is an obvious buy-low candidate with another full season of team control remaining.”
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