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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Yankees rally after beatdown, top Dodgers 7-3 to avoid sweep in World Series rematch
They didn't quite return the favor after Saturday's beatdown at Dodger Stadium, but the New York Yankees are leaving Los Angeles with a win after all. The Yankees, after a wild 18-2 blowout loss on Saturday, rolled to a solid 7-3 win over the reigning World Series champions on Sunday afternoon. That gave them their first win of the three-game series and successfully avoided the sweep. The Yankees are one of just three teams in the league, along with the New York Mets and Cincinnati Reds, who have yet to be swept this season. Advertisement The Yankees jumped out in front right away on Sunday afternoon after Trent Grisham scored on an error following a Jasson Dominguez single. While Tommy Edman hit a solo home run in the second for the Dodgers to tie it up, the Yankees responded in the very next inning. Ben Rice hit a deep two-run shot to center, which suddenly put them up 3-1. Anthony Volpe scored on a wild pitch from Yoshinobu Yamamoto that inning, too. Yamamoto lasted just 3.2 innings on the mound for the Dodgers in what was his shortest start of the season. He gave up seven hits and four earned runs. The Yankees added two more runs in the fifth after both DJ LeMahieu and Oswald Peraza each hit RBI singles. That gave them a 6-1 lead at the time, which just about put the Dodgers away. Though both Andy Pages and Max Muncy hit solo shots for the Dodgers in the seventh, the comeback attempt started too late. The Yankees made it out of that inning, and then quickly fought through the final two to escape with the four-run win. LeMahieu hit a deep RBI double in the final inning to add one last run for good measure. He went 4-for-5 on the night in what was his first four-hit game since 2021. Advertisement The Dodgers won the opening game of the series 8-5 on Friday, thanks to a pair of home runs from star Shohei Ohtani. Then came Saturday's stunner, which was powered by seven RBIs from Muncy. Their 18 runs was the most that the Dodgers have ever put up against the Yankees in history, too. Things got so bad at one point that Ohtani even hilariously lost interest. The Dodgers, even with Sunday's loss, sit at 36-23 on the season. They lead the NL West, and have won four of their last six games. They'll open a four-game series with the Mets on Monday night. Though the Yankees are still in a great position in the AL at this point of the season — they hold a 36-22 record and are leading the AL East — it's clear that the Dodgers are still one step ahead of them after this past weekend's series in Southern California.
Fox News
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Yankees fan jukes out security on field before being handcuffed, catches it on camera
A New York Yankees fan did his best to evade security while running on the field, and he caught it all on his phone. In the bottom of the seventh with his Bronx Bombers up 1-0 (the same score they'd win by) against the Los Angeles Angels, a fan pulled off a bold strategy by rushing onto the field of play. The fan, wearing a pinstriped Aaron Judge jersey, sprinted from center to right field and even managed to juke security in the process right in front of right fielder Cody Bellinger. He appeared to record the ordeal on his phone, and hopped back into the stands, thinking he was scot-free. But that only lasted so long as security dragged him back onto the warning track and apprehended him. He left the field in cuffs, assisted by security. The fan missed the Yankees winning their 16th game in their last 20 contests as they took a seven-game lead in the American League East. Clarke Schmidt allowed four hits over six sharp innings, and Ian Hamilton, Tim Hill and Mark Leiter got the final nine outs to preserve the shutout. The lone run of the game came on an Anthony Volpe sac fly. Yankees starting pitchers have a major league-best 2.54 ERA over their last 39 games and have limited opponents to no more than one run in 22 of those outings. New York is 35-20, which is the third-best record in the league, and their AL East lead is the largest in baseball. The Yanks have also won five in a row and nine of their last 10. They now face a three-game set in a World Series rematch against the Los Angeles Dodgers, who defeated them in five games in the Fall Classic. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
Los Angeles Times
6 days ago
- Sport
- Los Angeles Times
‘Another log on the fire.' Yankees eager to avenge World Series meltdown against Dodgers
For Dodgers fans, the must-have souvenir from last year's World Series was not a cap or T-shirt commemorating the team's championship. It was one of the stickers that popped up all over town, reproducing the Fox Sports score box that showed the New York Yankees leading, 5-0, with two out in the fifth inning. For the Yankees, it was the image that encapsulated an inning of extremely unfortunate events: Aaron Judge dropped a fly ball, Anthony Volpe committed a throwing error, Gerrit Cole did not cover first base. The Dodgers tied the score before the Yankees could secure that third out and, a couple hours later, boisterously raised the championship trophy atop a makeshift stage in the Yankee Stadium outfield. The celebrations raged for days, including a Mookie Betts podcast on which Chris Taylor said the Yankees had 's— down their leg' and a 'Baseball Isn't Boring' podcast on which Joe Kelly said the Dodgers' scouting reports had highlighted the Yankees' deficiencies: 'They can't make a play.' You cannot glorify bat flips, as Major League Baseball itself does these days, and you cannot encourage players to market themselves and share their personalities, as the league also does, without running the risk of what the old-fashioned among us might call poor sportsmanship. To the Yankees' credit, they get it. 'The way I personally look at it is, when you go out and you are on the right side of the victory, you've got a leg to stand on,' Yankees closer Luke Weaver told me this week at Angel Stadium. 'When you lose, you ain't got much to say. 'They said what they said. That's what they felt. I don't take it too personally. In a perfect world, yeah, you don't want to hear that type of stuff. We know what happened. We know we had to do a better job. We just didn't quite do what we wanted to do. With that being said, it is what it is.' For the first time since the World Series, the Yankees return to Dodger Stadium this weekend. The Dodgers are sold out of suites advertised this week for as much as $15,000 per game. As of Wednesday, available tickets on the team website for Friday's series opener ranged from $103 to $567 in general, $146 to $607 with early entry included. The entire series will be nationally broadcast: Friday on Apple+, Saturday on Fox, Sunday on ESPN. 'I understand that it's going to get a lot of eyeballs,' Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. 'I think that's great for our sport.' Said Weaver: 'It'll be a big series because, one, they're a great team, and we feel like we're a great team. It's hard to say it's not a rematch. 'To be honest, there's probably some deeper pride that wants to go in there and play good ball and play clean ball, and make sure that we take the series and do our job.' ESPN played up the 'rematch' angle during last Sunday's Dodgers broadcast. However, of the 10 players that started that fateful Game 5 of the World Series for the Yankees, only three are active on the Yankees' roster: Judge, Volpe and catcher Austin Wells. Gone in free agency: outfielders Juan Soto and Alex Verdugo and infielders Anthony Rizzo and Gleyber Torres. On the injured list: Cole, infielder Jazz Chisholm Jr. and designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton. New to New York: former Dodger Cody Bellinger, former Dodger-killer Paul Goldschmidt and L.A.'s own Max Fried, who is Friday's scheduled starting pitcher. In spring training, Judge said there was a simple solution to whatever verbal shots the Dodgers took in the wake of the World Series: 'Play better.' At the time, Boone said he hoped the Yankees would 'handle things with a little more class' if they won the World Series this year. He also noted the Dodgers' stars did not say anything to diminish the Yankees. 'Some guys are more inclined to spout off and be a little more colorful than others, and that's their right. They won,' he said then. 'And again, hopefully we're in that position and do things a little better.' Have the Yankees used that fifth inning for motivation or just flushed it? 'I've used the phrase 'another log on the fire,'' Boone said this week. 'We've had some really tough ends to the season, and probably in some way, shape or form serve as some motivation. 'But I'd like to think that, had we won the World Series last year, we'd be hell bent on getting back again. You put this uniform on, and this hat, and what it represents, and our goal is to get back and do that again.' The Detroit Tigers, not the Yankees, have the best record in the American League. The Philadelphia Phillies, not the Dodgers, have the best record in the National League. Yet the projections at Baseball Prospectus and Fangraphs say the most likely World Series matchup is a Dodgers-Yankees rematch. That would be great for L.A. and New York, and for Fox, but that also would make a lockout after the 2026 season even more likely than it already is. You can hear the owners now: If the price of admission to the World Series again is a team in one of the two largest markets in baseball, how can a team in any other market hope to compete? And, if the Dodgers spend $1 billion on free agents, win, spend another half-billion on free agents, and return to the World Series, are the Dodgers ruining baseball? 'It's difficult for most of us owners to be able to do the kinds of things that they're doing,' an owner said last January. Oh, wait: That was Hal Steinbrenner, owner of the Yankees, the one team that CNBC estimated generated more revenue than the Dodgers last year. This, we hope, is Steinbrenner being a team player. One high-ranking sports industry executive told me he never has seen baseball owners so united on pursuing major changes to the sport's economic structure, salary cap or otherwise. Either the large-market owners and small-market owners truly are on the same page, or at least they need the players' union to believe they are. It is difficult to imagine Steinbrenner willfully offering to surrender some of the Yankees' competitive advantage so the Pittsburgh Pirates can squander a few more bucks. What Steinbrenner said is reasonable at a time cable television revenue has dried up for many teams, even as the Dodgers and Yankees continue to cash in, but the 'us' makes the comment look silly. If a couple players on the Dodgers can make a silly comment, so can the owner of the Yankees. Bring on the World Series rematch.
Reuters
6 days ago
- General
- Reuters
One run enough as Yankees finish sweep of Angels
May 29 - Clarke Schmidt and three relievers combined to shut out the Los Angeles Angels on five hits in the New York Yankees' 1-0 victory Wednesday night in Anaheim, Calif. Schmidt (2-2) threw six scoreless innings and was followed by Ian Hamilton (1 2/3 innings), Tim Hill (1/3 inning) and Mark Leiter Jr. (one inning, second save) to help the Yankees complete a three-game sweep. It was their fifth win in a row. The loss was the fifth straight for the Angels, the club totaling just five runs during that time, including being shut out twice. The losing streak comes on the heels of an eight-game winning streak, during which they scored 61 runs. The only run of the game came home on a sacrifice fly by Anthony Volpe in the first inning. Paul Goldschmidt and Trent Grisham each had two hits for New York. Aaron Judge went 0-for-2 with a strikeout and two intentional walks. The Yankees made things difficult for Angels starter Yusei Kikuchi in the first and second innings, getting four hits and four walks but they were able to only push across one run. Goldschmidt led off the game with a double, and one out later, Judge was intentionally walked. Kikuchi followed with a walk to Cody Bellinger, loading the bases. Volpe's fly ball to center was deep enough to score Goldschmidt from third, but that's all the Yankees could muster, Kikuchi getting the final out of the inning and leaving the bases loaded. Kikuchi got a key double play in the second inning but still found himself issuing another intentional walk to Judge and facing Bellinger with the bases loaded and two out. Bellinger popped out to left field, and Kikuchi was ultimately able to get through five innings without allowing another run. In all, Kikuchi (1-5) gave up one run on four hits and five walks in five innings, making 93 pitches and striking out four. Despite only one win in 12 starts this season, he leads the Angels' starters in ERA (3.06), strikeouts (58) and innings pitched (64 2/3). --Field Level Media
Washington Post
27-05-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
Volpe's 3-run double and Yarbrough's solid start propel surging Yankees to 5-1 win over Angels
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Anthony Volpe hit a three-run double during the Yankees' four-run fourth inning, and Ryan Yarbrough yielded two hits over six innings in New York's 5-1 victory against the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night. Cody Bellinger had two hits and an RBI in the Yankees' ninth victory in 10 games.
