Final Score: Dodgers 4 Yankees 2
Why The Dodgers Won: Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched an outstanding 6 and 1/3 innings giving up a home run for the only Yankee hit, walking 2 and striking out 4. The bullpen took over from there until a shaky 9th inning. The Dodgers hit 3 more home runs to account for all 4 runs. Freddie Freeman and Tommy Edman hit solo shots and Teoscar Hernandez hit a 2 run home run. It was pretty much a standoff with the big 3. The Dodger big 3 went 3 for 11 with a walk and a home run and RBI. The Yankees big 3 went 3 for 12 with a home run and 2 RBI’s. The bad news for the Yankees is that Aaron Judge is still in a funk going 0 for 4 striking out 3 times. The Dodgers seemed to have this game under control until the top of the 9th
Key Moment Of The Game: It was 4-1 Dodgers going into the 9th inning when Juan Soto led off with a single off Blake Treinen. Treinen struck out Judge thanks to him taking a 2nd strike and swinging at a ball out of the strike zone. During the at bat Soto moved to 2nd on a wild pitch. Giancarlo Stanton singled Soto home to make the score 4-2. Jazz Chisholm Jr. singled and Anthony Rizzo was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Anthony Volpe had a worse at bat than Judge, if you can believe that. He received 6 pitches and swung at 3 pitches out of the strike zone to strike out. If he would have just stood there with the bat on his shoulder, the Yankees would have scored a run. Dave Roberts had seen enough and brought in the left hander Alex Vesia to face the struggling Austin Wells. Aaron Boone countered with Jose Trevino. One pitch and Vesia got Trevino to fly out to centerfield to end the game. The lack of plate discipline really hurt the Yankees in the 9th
Next Game: Tomorrow night, Yankee Stadium. The Yankees trail in the series 2 games to none. I mentioned this in the history of this rivalry, that in 11 World Series meetings 4 times the team that won the first two games lost the series including the last 2. It will not happen a 5th time if Aaron Judge does not come out of his slump. It will be a must win situation for the Yankees come Monday night. The other big news in last night’s game was the injury that Shohei Ohtani suffered when sliding, a rare and unusual baseball maneuver. The Dodgers are hopeful that he will be able to play on Monday. Let’s hope they teach him to slide today.
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