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The 12th World Series meeting between the Dodgers and the Yankees will easily be the most expensive. Whereas fans paid around $5.50 face value for the teams' first World Series meeting in 1941, when the Dodgers still played in Brooklyn, anyone now seeking tickets in the Bronx or Los Angeles can expect to pay at least four figures on the secondary market.

Aaron Judge and the Yankees clinched their place in the World Series on Saturday night, beating Cleveland Guardians in five games. Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers then booked their place on Sunday, winning in Game 6 against the New York Mets.

Start spreading the news! World Series baseball is officially returning to the Bronx for the first time in 15 years and the New York Yankees made sure to throw a fitting welcome home party.  The Yankees were in a New York groove Saturday night as they toasted their American League Championship Series victory in style.  Juan Soto's tenth inning, three-run blast sealed a 5-2 Game 5 win against the Cleveland Guardians and with it the American League pennant.  And it's safe to say that the Pinstriped savored the moment.

No amount of Yankee heroics could be enough to stop the Cleveland Guardians from getting at least one game back in the American League Championship Series. In fact, they needed some heroics of their own. In a wild, back-and-forth contest that required the intensity of extra innings, the Guardians took Game 3 of the ALCS from the New York Yankees with a 7-5 win.  Cleveland took a 3-1 lead in the game before surrendering back-to-back home runs to Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton - giving the Yankees a 4-3 lead in the top of the eighth that was extended to 5-3 the following inning.

The Yankees are closing in on a first World Series appearance since 2009 - and Aaron Judge appears to have returned to form at the perfect time. The New York captain came up clutch with a two-run home run in the seventh inning on Tuesday night, to ensure that he and his team-mates head to Cleveland for Game 3 with a 2-0 lead in their back pockets. The best-of-seven American League Championship Series is firmly in the Yankees' control, and the team have won the first two games at this stage of the playoffs for the first time since 2009 against the LA Angels. That year they won the World Series.

Jazz Chisholm Jr. and the Yankees got the last laugh on Thursday night after he was repeatedly booed in Kansas City, as the Bronx Bombers took down the Royals to move into the ALCS in four games. Chisholm had claimed that the Royals 'got lucky' after the Yankees' lost Game 2 at home, and the Kansas City fans didn't forget that as they jeered him throughout Games 3 and 4. But with a 3-1 win on Thursday to wrap up the series, those boos were silenced, and Chisholm's teammates had a hilarious way of mocking the opposing fans afterwards.

Olivia Dunne has paid tribute to her 'little rookie' boyfriend Paul Skenes after the Pirates pitcher rounded out his first MLB season at Yankee Stadium on Saturday. Dunne shared a picture of herself in the stands in New York with Skenes pitching in the background in his final game of the season for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Skenes only pitched for two innings on Saturday but struck out Aaron Judge and Juan Soto with Dunne cheering him on in cowboy boots that had Skenes' name emblazoned across them. 

Is this Aaron Judge's greatest season yet? As hard as it is to top his MVP campaign of 2022, the New York Yankees slugger has done precisely that this year. And now that he's teamed with Juan Soto, the Bronx Bombers may have a duo that can finally rival the historic contributions of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in the 1920s.

New York Yankees captain Aaron Judge decided to go from one New York City borough to another as he took in the US Open in Queens. Rather than bash home runs for the Bronx Bombers, the Yankees slugger took in the sights and sounds of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. He was joined with his wife Samantha Bracksieck - along with teammate Anthony Rizzo and wife Emily Rizzo. 

On Wednesday, Smith was asked who has had a more impressive season on ESPN, Judge or the Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani. Judge leads the MLB Player Hitting Stats board with 51 home runs, while Ohtani is second with 42. ''Judge has Juan Soto batting behind him so they can't get around him… they've got to pitch to the brother because you have Soto waiting in the wings,' Smith said on live TV. 'So all those things facilitate Aaron Judge behind who he is.'

Major League Baseball said that Nick Mahrley - a second-year umpire - will undergo further tests in the upcoming days, and he will not work the first series of next week at a minimum. 'We're definitely all hoping the best for Nick,' said Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge. 'They've got a tough job back there.' Mahrley exited in the fifth inning of the Yanks' 10-3 win over the Rockies.

Did Aaron Judge stand up a youth baseball team from the South Shore of Staten Island? Sunday's Little League Classic in Williamsport, Pennsylvania involved a meet-and-greet for young players with MLB stars from the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees, including the 2022 American League MVP. Problem was, South Shore manager Bob Laterza told the Staten Island Advance, is that Judge skipped the event altogether. And later, according to Laterza, Judge ignored calls from Little Leaguers during the Yankees' 3-2 loss to the Tigers. 'How about turning around or wave to New York and the kids that think you're a hero?' Laterza told silive.com. 'They are the ones who pay your salary.

Aaron Judge became the fastest player to join the 300 home-run club on Wednesday night with an eighth-inning longball. Judge hit home run No 300 in his 955th Major League Baseball game. The previous record belonged to Hall of Famer Ralph Kiner, who did it in 1,087 games. The New York Yankees star also belted his 300th home run in 3,428 career at-bats, breaking the mark set by fellow Yankee Babe Ruth, who reached the feat nearly 100 years ago in 3,830 at-bats. 

The USA women's basketball team might have won gold at the Paris Olympics, but the debate over Caitlin Clark's snub from the team still isn't going away. Clark, the No. 1 pick in this year's WNBA Draft by Indiana Fever, has driven the league's popularity to new levels in her rookie season - thanks due to her skillset and her rivalry with Angel Reese, the No. 7 pick by Chicago Sky. Clark and Reese are locked in a battle for WNBA Rookie of the Year, with the season resuming on Thursday when Reese and Sky face Phoenix Mercury. But instead of having a month off, Smith believes they both should have been in France.

Before the WNBA returns next week, Caitlin Clark spent her weekend in New York City, with a Saturday trip to Yankee Stadium. Clark made it clear, her favorite part of being at the home of the New York Yankees was meeting Aaron Judge. Judge and Clark met before the Yankees doubleheader against the Texas Rangers.

Livvy Dunne proudly cheered on boyfriend Paul Skenes from the stands on Tuesday as he finished a scoreless first inning in the MLB All-Star Game. The rookie Skenes was selected as the NL's starting pitcher on the back of a blazing start to his MLB career with the Pirates. And Dunne could be seen screaming from the stands when he earned his final out of the inning as Aaron Judge grounded out to third base.

The Yankees captain, who's 6-ft 7 and weighs 286lbs, was seen in the middle of the massive brawl in the ninth inning of his team's 4-1 win at Camden Yards on Friday night. The fight started after a nasty pitch from teammate and reliever Clay Holmes hit the head of outfielder, Heston Kjerstard, at bat. Orioles' manager Brandon Hyde led the charge, followed by his players, as he stormed onto the field after the play

Aaron Judge's personal hitting coach slammed the New York Yankees' player development as the team tries to dig themselves out of a slump. The Bronx Bombers were at risk of getting swept in a three-game series against the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday when coach Richard Schenck took a jab at the organization his biggest client plays for. During the game at Yankee Stadium, YES Network posted a screenshot of Judge on the plate with a quote from former Yankees announcer Michael Kay, writing: 'He hits. They win. That's it.'

Aaron Judge gave the Yankees a major injury scare on Tuesday night when he was hit on the left hand by a pitch in the game against Baltimore Orioles. Judge stayed out on the field and got a run for the Yankees but after giving his team a couple of right-handed fist bumps, headed straight into the clubhouse.

Travis Kelce has joined forces with TikTok sensation Olivia Dunne as part of a campaign to promote the Accelerator's Active Energy drink. During an interview on Good Morning America , Kelce revealed that he had 'got Livvy Dunne in the building' to shoot advertisements for the energy drink brand, which he became an investor in last year along with brother Jason and Yankees star Aaron Judge . Dunne, the LSU gymnastics sensation who boasts eight million followers on TikTok, also joined Accelerator's A-list roster of athletes in 2023, and this week she teamed up with Kelce to promote it.

Home plate umpire Ryan Blankley tossed the Yankee captain on his way back to the dugout before Judge came back to confront the official. The heated yet still measured argument prompted Yankees manager Aaron Boone to hop out of the dugout to defend Judge and momentarily hold him back from Blankley. '[I'm] very surprised,' Judge said when asked about the ejection. 'Especially a 5-3 game, late in the game, bat-on 3-2 count. You know, kind of walking away, saying my peace. I've said a lot worst.'

Two days after winning WWE's World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 40, Damian Priest appeared at Yankee Stadium to meet Aaron Judge. Judge is the Yankees biggest star, while Priest has been one of WWE's integral roster members for a few years. The biggest moment of Priest's career took place Sunday, when he cashed in his Money in the Bank briefcase to defeat Drew McIntyre for the belt.

When asked where he was during Friday's earthquake in New York on Friday, a flustered Aaron Judge preferred plead the fifth. An earthquake struck the New York City metropolitan area shortly before 11 a.m. on Friday, with the US Geological Survey confirming that the epicenter was located near Lebanon, New Jersey. Bergen Record's Pete Caldera said everyone at Yankee Stadium 'certainly felt the ground shaking' when the 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck - but batting practice continued uninterrupted.

The Yankees are now 5-1 following their heavy 7-0 loss in Arizona earlier this week and a 5-2 victory over the D'Backs on Monday. This season was the first time in franchise history that the pinstripes won their five games of the season on the road. What's more, this season is the fifth time in franchise history that the Yankees have started with a 5-0 record. The Yankees' last season in which they had five straight victories was 32 years ago, when they opened the season with a 6-0 record.