Ryan Yarbrough restricted baseball’s greatest offense to 4 hits over six innings, Ben Rice hit a tiebreaking two-run homer and the New York Yankees defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-3 on Sunday to keep away from getting swept for the primary time this season.
The Dodgers outscored the Yankees 26-7 in successful the primary two video games of their World Collection rematch, together with an 18-2 rout Saturday. However right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the stalwart on a employees ravaged by accidents, labored from the beginning in entrance of 54,031, the biggest crowd of the season at Dodger Stadium.
Yarbrough (3-0) allowed one run and struck out 5 in his fifth begin of the yr. He was a reliever for the Dodgers final season and acquired his World Collection ring whereas on the town.
Yamamoto (6-4) gave up a season-high seven hits whereas placing out two in 3 2/3 innings, each season lows. The Japanese right-hander permitted 4 runs and walked three.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up a season-high seven hits whereas placing out two in 3 2/3 innings, each season lows.(Picture by Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-Information through Getty Photos)
New York’s DJ LeMahieu had his first four-hit sport since 2021.
The Yankees led 1-0 on Jasson Dominguez’s RBI single within the first. Left fielder Andy Pages‘ throw sailed over the pinnacle of catcher Will Smith. Backing up Smith, Yamamoto made a pinpoint throw to second, however Kike Hernandez dropped the ball and Domínguez was secure.
Domínguez later left the sport with a bruised left thumb.
Tommy Edman tied the sport with a two-out homer within the second. After that, Yarbrough retired 13 of his subsequent 15 batters. Pages and Max Muncy homered within the seventh.
The Yankees took a 4-1 lead within the third. Rice’s 425-foot homer to heart discipline scored Aaron Judge, who walked. Anthony Volpe singled, went to 3rd on Austin Wells‘ single and scored on Yamamoto’s wild pitch.
They prolonged the result in 6-1 within the fifth on RBI singles by LeMahieu and Oswald Peraza off Lou Trivino. LeMahieu’s RBI double made it 7-3 within the ninth.
Key second
Choose and Shohei Ohtani have been hitless after changing into the primary reigning MVPs in main league historical past to homer within the first inning of a sport on Friday. Choose was 0 for 4 with a stroll and two strikeouts as the one Yankees participant to go hitless. Ohtani went 0 for 4 with a strikeout.
Key stats
The Yankees are 4-0 this season when dealing with a sequence sweep, having overwhelmed Arizona, Detroit, Cleveland and the Dodgers. They’re additionally one among three groups that hasn’t been swept in a sequence of not less than two video games. … It was the primary time this season the Dodgers’ high 4 hitters went hitless: Ohtani, Teoscar Hernandez, Freddie Freeman and Smith.
Up subsequent
After an off day, Yankees LHP Carlos Rodon (7-3, 2.60 ERA) begins Tuesday in opposition to Cleveland.
Dodgers RHP Dustin May (3-4, 4.20) pitches Monday evening in opposition to the New York Mets.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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