Friday, March 28, 2025
Copyrighted by Sarah Morris, 2025
On Friday, Apple TV released the documentary about last year’s World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees.
The three-part documentary captured the drama of the 2024 World Series. It documented Freddie Freeman’s physical ailments and featured Mookie Betts’s wife and mother, who was his first baseball coach.
It captured the drama of Game 2 and the Dodgers’ anxiousness when Shohei Ohtani partially separated his left shoulder.
It described the importance of Teoscar Hernández’s fabulous throw to keep the Yankees scoreless in Game 3. It needed to spend more time on the importance of the remarkable performance of Walker Buehler who had the toughest time of returning from his second Tommy John surgery.
Game 4, the documentary kept on telling the Dodgers’ perspective. However, it also gives the Yankees’ perspective, too. For the first time, Apple TV did baseball right.
In Game 5, Jack Flaherty didn’t pitch well, but the Yankees’ awful defense gave the Dodgers the world championship.
The documentary didn’t touch on how much adversity the Dodgers overcame to be the world champions. The Dodgers went through the playoffs, including narrowly winning the NLDS against the San Diego Padres, by relying on the bullpen heavily. Without great performance by the Dodger bullpen and Dave Roberts’ supreme managerial skills, the Yankees would win the world championship. I never thought the 2024 season was a special season for the Dodgers. For the first time since 1988, the Los Angeles Dodgers had a parade to celebrate the Dodger full-season world championship. Every Dodger fan won’t forget the 2024 season.
While Apple TV did a fantastic job, the Dodgers need to do a DVD on the 2024 season because it was a testament to how a team can overcome adversity and achieve glory. Freddie Freeman will live in the Dodger folklore forever.
