The 120th World Series has the potential of being epic, both on and off the field. The ingredients are similar to the 1975 World Series, when the Cincinnati Reds and Boston Red Sox, loaded with star players, waged such dramatic games it set the tone for the free agent era and—thanks to a fortuitous rainout of Game 6—for weeknight prime time sports. It helped catapult the sport into an era of huge growth.
Dodgers vs. Yankees has that kind of potential. It marks the first time 50-home run hitters will oppose each other in the World Series (Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge), only the third time in 30 full wild-card seasons that the teams with the best outright record in each league play in the World Series and, given international interest, it could draw an audience that ranks with 2004 and 2016 as one of the best this century.
