World Series score: Yankees vs. Dodgers live updates as Anthony Volpe grand slam in Game 4 gives New York life

If the Dodgers can pull it off in Game 4, that would mark the first World Series sweep since 2012

Tuesday's Game 4 of the 2024 World Series finds the host New York Yankees on the verge of being swept and the Los Angeles Dodgers one win away from the eighth world championship in franchise history. The Yankees haven't been swept in the World Series since the Reds victimized them in 1976. The Dodgers, meantime, haven't swept a World Series since 1963, when they bounced, yes, the Yankees in the minimum four games.

As for the longer view, of the 40 teams to be down 0-3 in a best-of-seven postseason series in Major League Baseball, only one team has come back to win the series in question. That team was the 2004 Red Sox, who defied the odds and won the ALCS versus the Yankees. Current Dodgers manager Dave Roberts notched a critical stolen base in Game 4 of that series.

As for the current series, the Dodgers in Game 4 will conduct a bullpen game, as they've done on multiple occasions this postseason on account of their injury-compromised rotation. The Yankees have made a lineup change for more righty-lefty balance in the order. The left-handed hitting Jazz Chisholm Jr. will bat cleanup in Game 4, with Giancarlo Stanton moved down to the No. 5 hole. On the mound, the Yankees will counter by starting rookie right-hander Luis Gil.

Stop us if you've heard this one before, but Freddie Freeman got the scoring started with a two-run home run in the first inning, his fourth in this World Series. The Yankees got a run back in the second and in the third, Anthony Volpe parked a grand slam into left field to give New York its first lead since Game 1. The Dodgers scored two in the top of the fifth and we've got ourselves a ballgame. Austin Wells gave the Yankees a little breathing room in the sixth with a home run to put them up 6-4.

We at CBS Sports will be here throughout Game 4 for live updates, highlights, and running commentary. You can find that just below.

[Oct 29, 2024 at 11:08 pm ET · Dayn Perry]

Gleyber piles on

Gleyber Torres blew it open for the Yankees with a three-run homer in the eighth that made it 10-4 Yankees. Here's a look: 

The bottom of the Yankee order and the Yankee bullpen are the reasons we're very likely to have a Game 5 tomorrow night. 

[Oct 29, 2024 at 11:04 pm ET · Matt Snyder]

Yankees grab more insurance

Verdugo with the infield pulled in grounds to second base, but Volpe from third got such a good jump that he beat the throw home. It's 7-4.

[Oct 29, 2024 at 10:49 pm ET · Mike Axisa]

Dream Weaver strikes out two in a 1-2-3 eighth. He's thrown 21 pitches. Gotta send him out there for the ninth. Boone would be crazy to take him out (unless the score a bunch of runs). The Yankees will take at least a two-run lead to the ninth.

[Oct 29, 2024 at 10:41 pm ET · Mike Axisa]

The non-existent blue D train won the Great Subway Race. Bad omen for the Yankees.

[Oct 29, 2024 at 10:40 pm ET · Dayn Perry]

Landon Knack was an effective bulk reliever for the Dodgers tonight, as he allowed one run in four innings of work. They still trail by two runs, though.

[Oct 29, 2024 at 10:31 pm ET · Mike Axisa]

Weaver fans Mookie to end the inning. The Yankees have a two-run lead and six outs to get.

[Oct 29, 2024 at 10:27 pm ET · Mike Axisa]

The Yankees are going to Luke Weaver in the seventh inning. Two outs, a runner on second, Mookie and Freeman coming up. I can't imagine they'll ask him to get seven outs, but maybe?

[Oct 29, 2024 at 10:18 pm ET · Mike Axisa]

Mark Leiter Jr. is in here in the seventh. Luke Weaver is already warming up.

[Oct 29, 2024 at 10:17 pm ET · Mike Axisa]

After watching the Austin Wells home run, watch this:   

[Oct 29, 2024 at 10:16 pm ET · Dayn Perry]

Wells homers to give Yanks insurance run

Yanks catcher Austin Wells was a useful hitter during the regular season, but he's struggled badly in these playoffs. That changed in Game 4 with this homer: 

That homer pushed the Yankee lead to 6-4 in the sixth inning of this elimination game. 

[Oct 29, 2024 at 10:08 pm ET · Mike Axisa]

A tidy 1-2-3 sixth for Holmes. Kahnle and Weaver for the final nine outs?

[Oct 29, 2024 at 10:06 pm ET · Matt Snyder]

Good Clay Holmes has entered the conversation. Two strikeouts to start the sixth.

[Oct 29, 2024 at 10:03 pm ET · Mike Axisa]

The Yankees keep stranding runners. The Dodgers are too good to keep doing that. Four innings to play and that is an eternity with a one-run lead.

[Oct 29, 2024 at 10:00 pm ET · Dayn Perry]

We go to the sixth, and the Yankees have a 70.8% chance of winning and forcing a Game 5 tomorrow night.

[Oct 29, 2024 at 9:54 pm ET · Matt Snyder]

Yankees with a rally brewing ...

Judge reached on error and Chisholm walked. They should really tack on because the Dodgers won't stop coming.

[Oct 29, 2024 at 9:44 pm ET · Matt Snyder]

Yankees lead trimmed to 5-4

Freddie Freeman hit into a double play ball, but he beat the throw at first. Initially he was called out at first but review overturned the call, correctly. A bad feed from Gleyber Torres was the culprit, causing Anthony Volpe to need an extra split second on the turn. The runner on third comes home and cuts the lead to one. Clay Holmes enters the game for the Yankees. 

[Oct 29, 2024 at 9:44 pm ET · Kate Feldman]

Well I guess Freddie Freeman's ankle is OK after all

[Oct 29, 2024 at 9:42 pm ET · Matt Snyder]

They get one. A grounder forces out Ohtani at second and he had to slide. He runs off the field holding his left arm. He said last night that he was doing that to make sure he doesn't slide on the injured shoulder.

[Oct 29, 2024 at 9:41 pm ET · Matt Snyder]

Ohtani singles

There are two on and no out. The Yankees are in serious trouble.

[Oct 29, 2024 at 9:38 pm ET · Matt Snyder]

Dodgers not dead

Will Smith has homered and now Tommy Edman walked. The tying run will come to the plate. Luis Gil is done and Tim Hill is coming in for the lefty Shohei Ohtani. Note that Ohtani hit a hard fly ball last time, easily his best swing yet.

[Oct 29, 2024 at 9:36 pm ET · Mike Axisa]

Will Smith finds the short porch

It's 5-3 Yankees here in the fifth after that solo homer. This is Smith's third homer of the postseason. He hasn't hit much overall, but the few home runs he's hit have been impactful.

With the bullpen hot, I assume Luis GIl's day is just about over. Hard to think the Yankees will let him face Ohtani/Mookie/Freeman a third time.

[Oct 29, 2024 at 9:25 pm ET · Mike Axisa]

Landon Knack is coming in to "chew up" some outs, as Dave Roberts put it before the game.

[Oct 29, 2024 at 9:23 pm ET · Matt Snyder]

Yankees flashing some leather this inning

Anthony Rizzo stepped up on the barrier to make a catch in foul territory and Volpe made a nifty play at short to get a force at second. 

[Oct 29, 2024 at 9:15 pm ET · Matt Snyder]

Volpe chants now in Yankee Stadium. This place just came alive in 0.2 seconds and it's electric again.

[Oct 29, 2024 at 9:15 pm ET · Mike Axisa]

Volpe grand slam

The Yankees have been waiting for three-plus games for a big swing. Anthony Volpe just provided it. Grand slam into the left field seats. Yankee Stadium is shaking. It's 5-2 Yankees through three innings.

That is Volpe's first home run this postseason and thus his first career postseason homer. Couldn't have picked a better time for it. That is also the first postseason grand slam for the Yankees since Tino Martinez's grand slam in the 1998 World Series.

Daniel Hudson shot himself in the foot that inning. He loaded the bases on a hit by pitch, a single off the wall, a walk (after hitting Stanton earlier in the at-bat), then served up the two-out grand slam. The Dodgers have walked four batters and hit another in three innings.

[Oct 29, 2024 at 9:11 pm ET · Mike Axisa]

There is one out. The bases are full of Yankees for Anthony Rizzo. A Yankees first baseman has not hit a home run since July 31. If that drought is ever gonna end, there's no better time.

[Oct 29, 2024 at 9:09 pm ET · Mike Axisa]

Stanton got hit by a pitch on the hand, but he also took a half swing, so it's a strike. Ouch, literally and figuratively.