As soon as once more, the New York Yankees proved they’re nowhere close to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ weight class.
On Saturday, the Yankees had been blown out within the second sport of their three-game highway sequence towards the Dodgers, 18-2.
Los Angeles additionally gained Friday’s sequence opener, 8-5, within the groups’ first sport since final yr’s World Sequence, which the Dodgers gained in 5 video games.
With the consecutive losses, the hole between the 2 franchises hasn’t shrunk. If something, it is solely gotten extra cavernous.
Saturday’s sport was over virtually as quickly because it started.
The Dodgers raced out to a 10-0 lead after two innings. Shohei Ohtani, hitting leadoff, had three at-bats earlier than Yankees catcher Austin Wells, New York’s No. 7 hitter, stepped to the plate for the primary time.
The Dodgers are 8-2 of their final 10 video games (together with postseason) towards the Yankees, courting again to final common season and have averaged 6.8 runs per sport.
Los Angeles tattooed Yankees beginning pitchers Max Fried and Will Warren within the first two video games of the present three-game set.
Fried entered Friday’s loss with a 1.29 earned run common (ERA) however was dinged for a season-high six runs in 5 innings, giving up eight hits (additionally a season-high) whereas solely putting out three Dodgers batters.
Warren was even worse, being pulled after simply 1.1 innings. He allowed seven earned runs, strolling 4 and giving up six hits in 14 batters confronted whereas throwing almost as many balls (28) as strikes (29).
He entered Saturday with a 4.09 ERA this season however was red-hot in his 4 most up-to-date begins, going 2-0 and posting a 2.05 ERA with 33 strikeouts and 5 walks in 22 innings throughout that span.
Warren, like Fried, was no match for the Dodgers’ lineup. For the Yankees, who misplaced ace Gerrit Cole earlier this season after he underwent Tommy John surgical procedure, their pitching woes towards Los Angeles are a official concern.
If New York efficiently defends its AL pennant, its greatest guess at profitable a World Sequence is perhaps for one more NL group to knock out the defending champions. The Yankees actually cannot count on to topple the Dodgers as at the moment constructed.
For a franchise that is not used to taking a backseat to anybody, that ought to be a sobering actuality test. The Yankees are leagues behind the Dodgers, and it turns into an increasing number of clear every time they meet.
