Offishial News: Dodgers, Yankees clinch 2024 World Series berths

Ely Sussman · September 14, 2024

Today's news roundup also includes an upcoming change to your Marlins television-viewing experience.

On Sunday in the Dominican Winter League, 1B/OF Troy Johnston (Toros del Este) went 1-for-3 with a walk. Johnston has started all five of his team's games thus far. 1B Deyvison De Los Santos (Gigantes del Cibao) struck out in a pinch-hitting opportunity. De Los Santos still hasn't reached base safely through his first nine plate appearances.

Here's more Marlins news and content:

🔷 Bally Sports has officially become FanDuel Sports Network. The affiliate that carries Marlins games, FanDuel Sports Network Florida, is still available on the same channels it used to be prior to the rebrand and the mobile app's rebrand has already gone into effect.

🔷 Random Marlins stat of the day: this team has used 15 different starting center fielders over the last two seasons. If you could name at least 13 of them without cheating, I'd be extremely impressed. Aside from Jazz Chisholm Jr., all of the others had 25 starts or fewer during that span.

🔷 Elsewhere around baseball, the 2024 World Series matchup is set, featuring the teams who had the best regular season records in their respective leagues. The Yankees defeated the Guardians in five games with Giancarlo Stanton (1.222 OPS with 4 HR) earning ALCS MVP honors. The Dodgers took down the Mets in six games (Tommy Edman was the NLCS MVP). It's the first time since 1981 that the Yankees and Dodgers are meeting in October. No matter the result, several former Marlins players will be getting WS rings (Stanton, Chisholm, Jon Berti, Cody Poteet and Aaron Boone on New York's side; Miguel Rojas, Kiké Hernández and Alex Vesia for LA).

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