International Courant
LOS ANGELES — Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed one hit in 6 1/3 innings, Freddie Freeman homered for the second straight evening and the Los Angeles Dodgers hit three early longballs off Carlos Rodón to beat the New York Yankees 4-2 on Saturday for a 2-0 World Sequence lead.
Tommy Edman and Teoscar Hernández additionally went deep for the Dodgers, who noticed celebrity slugger Shohei Ohtani walks off the sphere late within the seventh inning with {a partially} dislocated left shoulder.
After the Yankees closed to 4-2 on Giancarlo Stanton’s RBI single within the ninth towards Blake Treinen, Alex Vesia relieved with the bases loaded and retired pinch-hitter Jose Trevino on a first-pitch flyout for the save.
Yamamoto gave up Juan Soto’s dwelling run within the third inning, then retired his final 11 batters.
“I used to be actually trying ahead to this recreation,” he stated by a translator, “and I am glad we had an awesome ending.”
Soto additionally singled off the wall within the ninth and scored on Stanton’s one-out hit at third base. Jazz Chisholm Jr. singled and Anthony Rizzo was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Treinen then struckout Anthony Volpe earlier than Vesia accomplished a four-hitter.
Ohtani was injured after sliding along with his ft whereas stealing second base to finish the seventh.
“He had a small subluxation of the left shoulder. We’ll get some testing finished tonight or tomorrow, after which we’ll know extra within the subsequent few days,” Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts stated. “The facility was wonderful. Vary of movement was good, so we’re inspired. However clearly I can not speculate as a result of (he) hasn’t gotten the scans but. So as soon as we get the scans we’ll know extra. However once more, now that the power and vary of movement are good, that is undoubtedly a constructive.”
Recreation 3 is Monday evening at Yankee Stadium. Forty-five of the 56 groups with a 2-0 lead within the World Sequence have received the title.
“Nobody stated it will be simple,” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone stated. “It is a lengthy sequence, and we now have to make it an extended sequence now. We is not going to again down.”
Soto’s tying run on an inside fastball was the one run Yamamoto allowed in two begins and 13 1/3 innings towards the Yankees this 12 months. The rookie right-hander left to an enormous ovation and gave the tiniest tip of his cap to the followers as he walked to the dugout.
“I feel all the things labored nicely for me, from the start, the primary inning,” he stated. “It labored fairly nicely in the present day.”
Yamamoto joined the Dodgers final December on a $325 million, 12-year contract, a file for pitchers. Along with Ohtani, he created file curiosity in Main League Baseball in Japan.
Yamamoto was sidelined from June 15 to September 10 as a consequence of a strained rotator cuff and this was his finest begin because the harm.
“Yamamoto, nice job tonight and we clearly took the lead early and held on,” Freeman stated.
In his longest outing since beginning within the Bronx, Yamamoto struck out 4 and walked two with a five-pitch array, together with curveballs, splitters, sliders and cutters. He improved to 2-0 in 4 postseason begins.
He pitched his finest recreation of the common season at Yankee Stadium in June, when he allowed three hits in seven shutout innings. Hernández had three dwelling runs and 9 RBIs throughout that three-game sequence.
An evening after Freeman hit the primary walk-off grand slam in Sequence historical past, turning a 3-2 deficit with two outs within the tenth inning right into a 6-3 victory, Edman put the Dodgers forward with a solo shot within the second.
After Soto tied the rating, Mookie Betts singled with two outs within the backside half and Hernández homered, on a 3-for-27 slide, to the right-center pavilion.
Freeman, who earlier than Friday had not gone deep since September 16, was greeted with loud cheers earlier than every plate look. He stuffed the depend and homered once more to right-center.
Taking part in with a sprained proper ankle, Freeman has homered in 4 straight Sequence video games courting again to Atlanta’s final two video games towards Houston in 2021. That is one shy of Astros outfielder George Springer’s file.
“These six days off have been enormous for me, between (the) NLCS and the World Sequence,” Freeman stated. “I used to be in a position to soothe my ankle. So hopefully with the flight tonight I am going to have loads of hassle with the flights, so hopefully we will get it down tomorrow and get in a great place for Recreation 3.
All three Dodgers dwelling runs got here on fastballs by Rodón, whose 31 longballs throughout the common season ranked second within the main leagues. Los Angeles had back-to-back Sequence homers for the second time, after Pedro Guerrero and Steve Yeager related towards Yankees lefty Ron Guidry for a 2-1 win in Recreation 5 in 1981.
Rodón gave up 4 runs and 6 hits in 3 1/3 innings.
Los Angeles took a 2-0 lead within the Sequence for the primary time since 1988, when Kirk Gibson’s walk-off homer towards Oakland’s Dennis Eckersley received the opener and Orel Hershiser adopted with a three-hit shutout. The Yankees are 0-2 for the primary time since 2001, once they rebounded to win three straight at dwelling and lose Video games 6 and seven in Arizona.
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Yankees RHP Clarke Schmidt and Dodgers RHP Walker Buehler begin Monday. Schmidt has a 3.86 ERA in a pair of postseason begins, no choices in Recreation 3s towards Kansas Metropolis and Cleveland. Buehler has additionally began a pair of Recreation 3s, permitting six runs over 5 innings in a 6-5 loss to San Diego and pitching 4 innings in an 8-0 win on the New York Mets.
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