If these teams meet again in 2019, it will be in Game 1 of the World Series on October 22.
While the clubs spent the weekend acknowledging the series invoked a playoff feel, both sides also maintained they were just three regular-season games. But something was at stake Sunday. The winner would claim not only a marquee triumph, but the tiebreaker for home-field advantage in the World Series should both teams finish with the same regular-season record and capture their respective pennants.
Kershaw’s performance befitted baseball in 2019. The left-hander compiled a season-high 12 strikeouts while walking none but also gave up three solo home runs. He has logged at least six innings in each of his 23 starts this season and given up three solo homers in each of his last two. The damage was loud but limited.
“They adjusted to us better than we adjusted to them and that was kind of the bottom line,” said Dodgers infielder Max Muncy, who went two for four with a double, a walk, and two strikeouts. Aaron Judge doubled the Yankees’ output in the third inning by blasting another Kershaw curveball for his third solo home run of the series. It marked the sixth time Kershaw gave up multiple home runs in a game this season and the fourth home run he’s surrendered on a curveball.
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