The Yankees return home in a two-game World Series hole after bombing in Hollywood, where the Dodgers mostly manhandled the Yankees, 4-2, in a Game 2 that was not much of a game until the last fram…
LOS ANGELES — If the Yankees absorbed a gut-punch on Freddie Freeman’s walk-off grand slam in Game 1, this Dodgers right hook was aimed further north.
On Saturday, Carlos Rodon could not follow in Gerrit Cole’s Friday footsteps and could not survive even the fourth inning. He tallied as many strikeouts as home runs surrendered, putting the Yankees in a ditch that felt deeper than the final score reflected.Shohei Ohtani exits World Series Game 2 in potential Dodgers injury disaster
The Yankees’ only trace of a pulse for eight innings came in the third, when Soto authored another one of those impossibly great at-bats — fighting off a 2-2 slider so he could finally see a fastball, which he sent to the skies for a home run into the right-field seats to tie game at 1-1 — before they flatlined.
Edman crushed a towering drive down the left-field line, 355 feet away, for the early Dodgers lead in the second inning.Shohei Ohtani lies on the ground after suffering an injury after being thrown out trying to steal second base to end the seventh inning in the Yankees’ Game 2 loss.Mookie Betts smacked a single to left before Rodon left a 98-mph fastball in the middle of the plate to Teoscar Hernandez.
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