LOS ANGELES — Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed one hit over 6⅓ innings, Freddie Freeman homered for the second straight night time and the Los Angeles Dodgers hit three early longballs off Carlos Rodon to beat the New York Yankees 4-2 on Saturday to take a 2-0 World Collection lead.
Tommy Edman and Teoscar Hernandez additionally went deep for the Dodgers, who watched star slugger Shohei Ohtani stroll off the sector with a left arm harm on the finish of the seventh inning.
After the Yankees closed to 4-2 on Giancarlo Stanton’s RBI single within the ninth in opposition to Blake Treinen, Alex Vesia relieved with the bases loaded and retired pinch-hitter Jose Trevino on a first-pitch flyout for the save.
Yamamoto allowed Juan Soto’s third-inning homer, then retired his final 11 batters and 15 of his ultimate 16.
Soto additionally singled within the ninth and scored on Stanton’s one-out hit off the third-base bag. Jazz Chisholm Jr. singled and Anthony Rizzo was hit by a pitch, loading the bases. Treinen then struck out Anthony Volpe earlier than Vesia relieved.
Ohtani damage his left arm on a feet-first slide when he was caught stealing second base to finish the seventh.
Recreation 3 is Monday night time at Yankee Stadium. Forty-five of 56 groups holding 2-0 World Collection leads have gone on to win the title.
New York’s Aaron Decide went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts and is hitting .150 with six RBIs and 19 strikeouts in 40 postseason at-bats.
Soto’s tying homer on an inside fastball was the one run Yamamoto allowed in two begins and 13⅓ innings in opposition to the Yankees this 12 months. The rookie left to a big ovation and gave the very slightest tip of his cap to followers when he walked to the dugout.
Yamamoto joined the Dodgers final December for a $325 million, 12-year contract, a report for pitchers, teaming with Ohtani to create report curiosity in Main League Baseball again in Japan.
Yamamoto was sidelined from June 15 to Sept. 10 due to a strained rotator cuff and this was his best begin for the reason that harm.
In his longest outing since his begin within the Bronx, Yamamoto struck out 4 and walked two with a five-pitch array that included curveballs, splitters, sliders and cutters. He improved to 2-0 in 4 postseason begins.
He threw his greatest regular-season recreation at Yankee Stadium in June when he allowed three hits over seven shutout innings. Hernandez had three homers and 9 RBI over that three-game sequence.
An evening after Freeman hit the primary walk-off grand slam in Collection historical past to remodel a 3-2 deficit with two outs within the tenth inning right into a 6-3 win, 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, in a 3-for-27 slide, homered into the right-center pavilion.
Freeman, who earlier than Friday hadn’t gone deep since since Sept. 16, was greeted with big cheers earlier than every plate look. He labored the depend full and in addition homered to right-center.
Enjoying on a sprained proper ankle, Freeman has homered in 4 straight Collection video games courting to Atlanta’s final two video games in opposition to Houston in 2021. That’s one shy of the report held by the Astros’ George Springer.
All three Dodgers homers got here on fastballs from Rodon, whose 31 longballs allowed in the course of the common season tied for second-most within the main leagues. Los Angeles had back-to-back Collection homers for simply the second time, after Pedro Guerrero and Steve Yeager related in opposition to Yankees lefty Ron Guidry for a 2-1 win in Recreation 5 in 1981.
Rodon allowed 4 runs and 6 hits in 3⅓ innings.
Los Angeles took a 2-0 Collection lead for the primary time since 1988, when Kirk Gibson’s walk-off homer in opposition to 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, after they rebounded to win three straight at residence and misplaced Video games 6 and seven at Arizona.
