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Ohtani had a rough World Series and grimaced every time he took a swing. He hurt his left shoulder in Game 2 and clearly isn’t 100%. The catcher interference took the bat out of injured Ohtani’s hands, brought Mookie the plate, and the Dodgers took it from there empire of the sun walking on a dream vinyl. The Yankees made every mistake in the book and the Dodgers took advantage every single time.
Gerrit Cole was excellent over 6.2 innings, but some poor defense from the Yankees — including Cole himself — led to five unearned runs in the fifth. The Dodgers then took the lead for good in the eighth and got a stunning performance from their bullpen, especially Blake Treinen and Walker Buehler, to close it out.
The runners advanced on the sacrifice, and the Dodgers loaded the bases again on a catcher’s interference call that put Shohei Ohtani on first. Then, perennial All-Star Mookie Betts followed with another sacrifice fly to score Tommy Edman and give the Dodgers a 7-6 lead.
The Yankees authored a dream start to Game 5. Cole was tactical in a seven-pitch first inning. Judge announced his arrival this World Series by walloping the first pitch he saw for a two-run home run, his first extra-base hit in 13 days. Then Jazz Chisholm Jr. went back-to-back with a mile-high solo shot into the right-field seats. Yankee Stadium shook.
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Even before the Yankees lost Game 3, manager Aaron Boone had ruled out bringing back staff ace Gerrit Cole on short rest. Cole only threw 88 pitches in a terrific Game 1 outing, but he dealt with a right elbow issue that delayed his start to the season, and the Yankees don’t want to press him.
“He’s a gladiator. He’s a warrior but a gentleman at the same time. I can tell how our guys gravitate toward him. I can tell even how the opposition always shows respect for him, especially when they’re around second base. Win or lose, he doesn’t clown, he doesn’t showboat. He plays the game the way that it should be played.”
The ending was abrupt, a lopsided, shutout loss to conclude a series in which arguably the best lineup in baseball was out-homered, 11-2. The Astros were simply outplayed, their Lance McCullers Jr.-less pitching staff unable to make up for their offense’s lack of production.
Even before the Yankees lost Game 3, manager Aaron Boone had ruled out bringing back staff ace Gerrit Cole on short rest. Cole only threw 88 pitches in a terrific Game 1 outing, but he dealt with a right elbow issue that delayed his start to the season, and the Yankees don’t want to press him.
“He’s a gladiator. He’s a warrior but a gentleman at the same time. I can tell how our guys gravitate toward him. I can tell even how the opposition always shows respect for him, especially when they’re around second base. Win or lose, he doesn’t clown, he doesn’t showboat. He plays the game the way that it should be played.”
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Though they didn’t capitalize on opportunities to turn it into a blowout and the Yankees got some late life from Alex Verdugo’s two-run homer off Michael Kopech in the ninth, the Dodgers were in control early and often and are now just a win away from their second World Series title in five years and their first in a full season since 1988.
This was another ineffective evening for the Yankees’ captain Aaron Judge, another night when they struggled to get help from the bottom half of their lineup (when they had two aboard and two out with Anthony Banda on the mound for L.A. in the seventh, Gleyber Torres was called out looking for strike three), another night when their starter didn’t have it. Though Verdugo’s two-out, two-run homer in the ninth put a late jolt into the building, it was too late to spark a real rally.
Among the three, Buehler was probably the most uncertain. He returned from a second Tommy John surgery midway through the year, struggled through a 5.38 ERA in 16 regular-season starts and seemed to have lost his overpowering fastball.
Following two days of conversation over whether Shohei Ohtani would be able to swing a bat after popping his left shoulder out of its socket late in Game 2, Ohtani didn’t need to swing at all to reach base out of the leadoff spot in the first. Yankees starter Clarke Schmidt walked him on four pitches. And one out later, Freeman, whose Game 1 walk-off grand slam and important insurance swat in Game 2 already had him in pole position for the World Series MVP honor, connected on a cutter upstairs to send it over the short porch in right field and quickly give the Dodgers a 2-0 edge.