Yankees: RHP Clarke Schmidt (5-5, 2.85 ERA in the regular season)Schmidt will make his third career postseason start and his first in the World Series. He tossed 4 2/3 innings of two-run ball in each of his first two outings this October, taking no-decisions against the Royals and Guardians. who was the first female ink master Schmidt pitched to a 4.50 ERA in eight home starts during the regular season, compared to a 1.39 ERA in eight road outings.
Getting the ball first for the Yankees in Game 4 will be Luis Gil, who’s made just one appearance this October. Gil, who sported a 3.50 ERA across 29 regular-season starts, started against the Cleveland Guardians in Game 4 of the ALCS where he gave up two runs on three hits and three walks while striking out three. The 26-year-old right-hander pitched 5.2 innings in a June start against the Dodgers, giving up three runs on five hits and one walk while striking out five.
When is the game and how can I watch it?Game 3 of the World Series will be played at Yankee Stadium in New York on Monday at 8:08 p.m. ET/5:08 p.m. PT. All World Series games will start at the same time and be televised on FOX.
But what came as a surprise is how stealth heavy Outlaws is, with dozens of story missions tasking you with sneaking into different facilities and often giving you a complete fail if an enemy sounds an alarm. The real problem is that, whether you’re generally a fan of stealth or not, Outlaws’ stealth simply doesn’t feel good. You aren’t given enough options or control, and dull enemy AI constantly makes stealth a case of doing the same thing over and over, whether that’s distracting an enemy with Nix and doing a takedown, waiting for someone’s route to pass by, or hacking to disable a camera. Being able to command Nix to do a variety of actions does add some variety, but some of his more interesting features have to be unlocked through abilities, meaning you won’t have them until very late in the game.
My demo opened with protagonist Kay Vess making a rough landing on Toshara and escaping waves of marauding bandits in a big speeder bike chase. This serves as the introduction to the adrenaline meter, which charges up in combat and, when full, lets you briefly pause the action to mark enemies and instantly take them down with an impressive display of gunslinging – perhaps the game’s most obvious nod to Red Dead.
It helps that it all meaningfully ties back into some of your central rewards, too. Remember how I got free access to the Pyke base after warning Gorak of that betrayal? An hour later, I was sneaking through a Pyke outpost trying to steal an equipment upgrade, but I got caught and had to shoot my way out. Suddenly, my reputation with the syndicate was shot and I was no longer welcome in their territory, which would inevitably make future dealings with the Pykes even trickier.
Star Wars Outlaws launched August 30, 2024 on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC, so any previous generation console players will need to make the upgrade before jumping into this exciting new adventure.
Experience the first-ever open world Star Wars™ game, set between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Explore distinct locations across the galaxy, both iconic and new. Risk it all as Kay Vess, a scoundrel seeking freedom and the means to start a new life, along with her companion Nix. Fight, steal, and outwit your way through the galaxy’s crime syndicates as you join the galaxy’s most wanted.
Massive does deserve praise for the game’s accessibility options, which are so numerous as to be borderline overwhelming (thankfully, they come with some presets). The “difficulty” setting is really just a gameplay preset of dials for elements such as enemy health and combat intensity. Each preset lists off the specific options it changes, so you can use them as starting points and then tweak individual settings. It allows any player to tailor huge aspects of the game to their liking so that the experience is right for them, which should just be an industry norm at this point. The aforementioned QTE for eating snacks can be turned off, for example. And regardless of one’s point of view on the notorious “yellow paint” wayfinding markers, there are options to disable them entirely, or to change their color and opacity so that they’re still visible but more understated.
But as the Series shifts to the Bronx for Game 3 on Monday night at Yankee Stadium, with the Dodgers up 2-0 in the best-of-seven, the big stars are faced with big questions — about Ohtani’s availability and Judge’s invisibility.
Ohtani suffered a left shoulder subluxation in the seventh inning of the Dodgers’ 4-2 victory in Game 2 on Saturday night when he slid into second on an unsuccessful steal attempt. The injury looked bad, but Ohtani is officially in the lineup for Game 3.
Yankees: RHP Clarke Schmidt (5-5, 2.85 ERA in the regular season)Schmidt will make his third career postseason start and his first in the World Series. He tossed 4 2/3 innings of two-run ball in each of his first two outings this October, taking no-decisions against the Royals and Guardians. Schmidt pitched to a 4.50 ERA in eight home starts during the regular season, compared to a 1.39 ERA in eight road outings.
The only time the Yankees got a runner to second base against Buehler came when Giancarlo Stanton doubled in the fourth. But when Anthony Volpe singled to shallow left with two outs, Yankees third-base coach Luis Rojas aggressively sent Stanton home, and the imposing DH was cut down by a perfect throw from Teoscar Hernández.
• Freddie Freeman entered having homered in each game of the series and wasted no time adding Game 4 to the list again, going yard in the first. He became the first player to homer in Games 1, 2, 3 and 4 of a World Series. The only other player to homer in four straight games within a single World Series is George Springer, in 2017 Games 4-7.