Billie Jean King meets up with Mookie Betts & wife, sends warning message to Yankees after Dodgers take 2-0 lead in World Series

Billie Jean King met with the Los Angeles Dodgers' Mookie Betts and his wife Brianna Hammonds after their impressive win in Game 2 of the 2024 World Series against the New York Yankees. The Dodgers now lead 2-0 and head to New York for the third game.

On October 25, the Dodgers defeated the Yankees 6-3 in Game 1 of the World Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. The teams returned to the Dodgers' home stadium for Game 2 and the National League champions earned another 4-2 win to lead the best-of-seven playoff 2-0.

After the match, Dodgers outfielder Betts met American tennis icon King with his wife Brianna. The 80-year-old uploaded an image of the trio on X and warned the Yankees as the teams will now travel to New York to play the next three matches in the World Series.

"New York, here we come!" Billie Jean King captioned her post.

In a post-match interview, Betts acknowledged the challenge of playing in New York, saying:

"It feels great, but playing in New York, you know what it’s like. They’re going to come ready to hit us in the mouth. But we’ll be ready to go."

Yankees manager Aaron Boone remained resolute, stating:

"No one said it’s going to be easy. It’s a long series, and we need to make it a long series now. We won’t flinch."

Game 3 of the 2024 World Series will take place on October 28, at Yankee Stadium in New York.

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"Baseball was my first true love” - Los Angeles Dodgers' minority owner Billie Jean King

Ilana Kloss (L) and Billie Jean King at a Los Angeles Dodgers game in 2022 (Image: Getty)

Billie Jean King, a minority owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers and a trailblazer for women’s sports, is expanding her advocacy efforts by joining Grassroots Baseball. She is also an executive producer on See Her Be Her, a documentary exploring women’s baseball. She reflected on her early passion (via NBC Los Angeles):

"Baseball was my first true love. But I never got the chance to play because I was a girl.”

King has become a transformative figure for women's sports. She advocated relentlessly for equal pay in tennis and most recently helped launch the Professional Women’s Hockey League. With See Her Be Her, she hopes to inspire others to follow their dreams:

"It is my hope that See Her Be Her will encourage girls and women to pursue their dreams no matter what others say is possible, and that one day soon women once again have a league of their own."

Baseball remains deeply personal to King, rooted in cherished memories of playing with her father and her brother, former MLB player Randy Moffitt.