Baseball: Dodgers ace Yamamoto roughed up by Yankees
LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) -- Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up four runs on seven hits in 3-2/3 innings in the Los Angeles Dodgers' 7-3 loss to the New York Yankees in the final game of their 2024 World Series rematch series Sunday.
Yamamoto (6-4) was pulled when the Dodgers were trailing 4-1. Reigning National League MVP Shohei Ohtani and American League MVP Aaron Judge both went hitless in four at-bats at Dodger Stadium.
Jasson Dominguez singled in the opening run for the Yankees in the first inning before Tommy Edman's ninth homer of the season tied the game 1-1 in the second.
But the Yankees got to Yamamoto again in the third.
Ben Rice followed a Judge leadoff walk with a home run to center. With runners on the corners and two outs, the Japanese ace threw a wild pitch, allowing Anthony Volpe to score.
Yamamoto walked three and struck out two in one of the worst outings of his excellent second season in the major leagues.
"I couldn't really control my pitches from the beginning," Yamamoto said. "I tried to regroup, but I didn't pitch well until the end. It's very frustrating."
In Game 2 of last year's World Series, he held the Yankees to just one hit, a home run by Juan Sato, in 6-1/3 innings.
After the Yankees dropped the first two games of the latest series, Ryan Yarbrough (3-0) outpitched Yamamoto with six innings of one-run ball.
Also on Sunday, Chicago Cubs designated hitter Seiya Suzuki had his MLB career-high hitting streak snapped at 11 games, going 0-for-3 in a 7-3 win over the Cincinnati Reds.
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