Jack Flaherty will start for Dodgers in World Series opener against Gerrit Cole and Yankees
Jack Flaherty will start for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series opener against the New York Yankees
By BETH HARRIS
Published - Oct 22, 2024, 08:21 PM ET
Last Updated - Dec 16, 2024, 06:06 PM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jack Flaherty will start for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series opener against the New York Yankees and Gerrit Cole on Friday night at Dodger Stadium in a matchup of area natives.
Flaherty is from nearby Burbank and attended high school at Harvard-Westlake in Los Angeles. Cole is from Tustin in Orange County and pitched at UCLA.
“There's no bigger stage than this and it's what we all wanted as kids and the position we wanted to be in,” Flaherty said Tuesday during a Zoom news conference. “It's just going to be an incredible matchup.”
Flaherty will be cheered by his mother, Eileen, who adopted him days after his birth, as well as other family members and friends.
