Dodgers push Yankees to brink with Game 3 victory

The Los Angeles Dodgers are one win away from their eighth championship after defeating the New York Yankees 4-2 in Game 3 of the World Series.

Walker Buehler was excellent in the contest, blanking the Yankees over five innings and tallying five strikeouts to earn the win.

Meanwhile, Freddie Freeman continued his incredible World Series performance, homering for a third straight game.

The home run was Freeman's fifth consecutive World Series game with a long ball, tying the all-time record set by outfielder George Springer, according to MLB.com's Sarah Langs.

"One more win, that's all I care about right now," Freeman told Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal postgame. "I don't care how it happens. I just want to get one more win."

Star outfielder and presumptive AL MVP favorite Aaron Judge continued to struggle at the plate, going hitless with one strikeout and one walk. Judge is hitting just .140 with a .580 OPS and 20 strikeouts across 43 postseason at-bats.

But Judge isn't the only one struggling, as the Yankees are hitting a miserable .186 in the World Series.

The Yankees will try to become the second team in history to rally from a 3-0 series deficit in a best-of-seven. The 2004 Boston Red Sox became the only team to accomplish the feat in 40 attempts when they stormed back to beat the Yankees in the ALCS. No team in MLB history has ever recovered from a 3-0 deficit in the World Series.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, who was part of that Red Sox club as a player, acknowledged that he didn't want to divulge any secrets about how to mount a historic comeback.

"There's just got to be urgency. I just don't want to let these guys up for air," Roberts said postgame, according to SNY.

Second baseman Gavin Lux added: "That's a really good team over there, so you don't take anything for granted. That last one's gonna be the hardest one to get."

Los Angeles will look to complete the sweep in Game 4, which goes Tuesday at 8:08 p.m. ET.