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Ryan Yarbrough, Yankees shut down Dodgers to avoid sweep
June 2 - Ben Rice hit a two-run home run and left-hander Ryan Yarbrough went six strong innings against his former club as the visiting New York Yankees avoided a three-game sweep in a World Series rematch with a 7-3 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday. DJ LeMahieu had four hits and drove in a pair of runs as the Yankees finished a 6-3 road trip against the Colorado Rockies, Los Angeles Angels and Dodgers. It was LeMahieu's first four-hit game since June of 2021. Yarbrough (3-0), who received his World Series ring this weekend after making 32 relief appearances with the Dodgers last season, gave up one run on four hits with no walks and five strikeouts in his fifth start of the season. Tommy Edman, Andy Pages and Max Muncy each hit home runs for the Dodgers, who saw a late surge fall short after scoring a combined 26 runs in two victories to start the series. Dodgers ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto (6-4) gave up four runs while tying a career high with seven hits allowed in 3 2/3 innings as he gave up three walks. He failed to complete five innings for the first time this season. The Yankees took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on a single from Jasson Dominguez, before the Dodgers tied it in the second on Edman's ninth home run. New York moved in front for good in the third inning when Rice followed a leadoff walk to Aaron Judge with a two-run home run to center field. Anthony Volpe and Austin Wells singled with one out and Volpe scored on a two-out wild pitch from Yamamoto. The Dodgers closed within 6-3 in the seventh inning against right-hander Jonathan Loaisiga when Pages and Muncy hit home runs in a span of three batters. Muncy hit his third home run in two games and now has seven on the season. LeMahieu's fourth hit of the game was an RBI double in the ninth. Dominguez hurt his left thumb after stealing second base in the fifth inning. The Dodgers were playing without Mookie Betts, who missed the series with a fracture at the tip of a toe on his left foot. --Field Level Media
Yomiuri Shimbun
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Yarbrough Shines as Yankees Avoid Sweep with 7-3 Win over Dodgers. Judge and Shohei Ohtani Are Hitless
AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto throws to the plate during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, June 1, 2025, in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ryan Yarbrough limited baseball's best offense to four 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 avoid getting swept for the first time this season. The Dodgers outscored the Yankees 26-7 in winning the first two games of their World Series rematch, including an 18-2 rout Saturday. But right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the stalwart on a staff ravaged by injuries, labored from the start in front of 54,031, the largest crowd of the season at Dodger Stadium. Yarbrough (3-0) allowed one run and struck out five in his fifth start of the year. He was a reliever for the Dodgers last season and received his World Series ring while in town. Yamamoto (6-4) gave up a season-high seven hits while striking out two in 3 2/3 innings, both season lows. The Japanese right-hander permitted four runs and walked three. New York's DJ LeMahieu had his first four-hit game since 2021. The Yankees led 1-0 on Jasson Domínguez's RBI single in the first. Left fielder Andy Pages' throw sailed over the head of catcher Will Smith. Backing up Smith, Yamamoto made a pinpoint throw to second, but Kiké Hernández dropped the ball and Domínguez was safe. Domínguez later left the game with a bruised left thumb. Tommy Edman tied the game with a two-out homer in the second. After that, Yarbrough retired 13 of his next 15 batters. Pages and Max Muncy homered in the seventh. The Yankees took a 4-1 lead in the third. Rice's 425-foot homer to center field scored Aaron Judge, who walked. Anthony Volpe singled, went to third on Austin Wells' single and scored on Yamamoto's wild pitch. They extended the lead to 6-1 in the fifth on RBI singles by LeMahieu and Oswald Peraza off Lou Trivino. LeMahieu's RBI double made it 7-3 in the ninth. Key moment Judge and Shohei Ohtani were hitless after becoming the first reigning MVPs in major league history to homer in the first inning of a game on Friday. Judge was 0 for 4 with a walk and two strikeouts as the only Yankees player to go hitless. Ohtani went 0 for 4 with a strikeout. Key stats The Yankees are 4-0 this season when facing a series sweep, having beaten Arizona, Detroit, Cleveland and the Dodgers. They're also one of three teams that hasn't been swept in a series of at least two games. … It was the first time this season the Dodgers' top four hitters went hitless: Ohtani, Teoscar Hernández, Freddie Freeman and Smith. Up next After an off day, Yankees LHP Carlos Rodón (7-3, 2.60 ERA) starts Tuesday against Cleveland. Dodgers RHP Dustin May (3-4, 4.20) pitches Monday night against the New York Mets.
Yahoo
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Ben Rice homers, Ryan Yarbrough delivers as Yankees avoid sweep with 7-3 win over Dodgers
The Yankees avoided a sweep by salvaging the finale of their three-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, 7-3, on Sunday Night Baseball. Here are the takeaways... -New York's offense made Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto work in what ended up being the right-hander's shortest start of the season. In the first inning, Yamamoto needed 28 pitches to get out of the frame while the Yanks managed to score just one run. They left the bases loaded on Austin Wells' groundout. Advertisement After another laborious inning in the second that didn't yield any runs, Yamamoto unraveled in the third. Aaron Judge started the inning with a walk which brought Ben Rice up to the plate. On an 0-2 pitch, Rice clobbered his 12th home run of the season to straightaway center that traveled 425 feet and gave New York a 3-1 lead. Back-to-back one-out singles by Anthony Volpe and Wells put runners at the corners and a wild pitch by Yamamoto allowed Volpe to dash home for the third run of the inning. -Yamamoto's night was done after 3.2 innings and 96 pitches. He allowed four earned runs on seven hits and three walks and only struck out two, a season-low. His ERA went from 1.97 to 2.39. -Opposite Yamamoto was Ryan Yarbrough who, unlike his counterpart, pitched great. Yarbrough carved up Los Angeles' lineup over six innings, only allowing a run on four hits. He also struck out five. Advertisement The run Yarbrough gave up came in the second inning and tied the game. Tommy Edman took the lefty deep on a 2-1 changeup that would've given the Dodgers the lead had Andy Pages not been caught trying to steal third base following a double. After the home run, Yarbrough set down nine in a row before Max Muncy's single in the fifth. Yarbrough ended his night by striking out Teoscar Hernandez and Freddie Freeman as part of a 1-2-3 inning. The outing was Yarbrough's fifth straight start of allowing two earned runs or fewer in what has been a great move by the Yanks putting the 33-year-old in the starting rotation. He now has a 2.83 ERA to go along with a 0.99 WHIP. -With Yamamoto out of the game, New York's offense didn't stop and went to work against the Dodgers' bullpen, particularly Anthony Banda and Lou Trivino in the fifth. After Banda walked two in the inning, Trivino entered and gave up a run-scoring single to DJ LeMahieu which made it 5-1. Oswald Peraza followed with an RBI single of his own. LeMahieu added an RBI double in the ninth, his first double of the season, and finished 4-for-5. He was the only Yankee to have multiple hits. Advertisement -The Yankees had traffic on the bases all night after producing 11 hits and seven walks while getting plunked twice. They also stole three bases and finished 4-for-16 with runners in scoring position. -Jonathan Loáisiga was the first man on in relief and allowed Los Angeles to inch closer after home runs by Muncy and Pages in the seventh made it 6-3. But other than the Dodgers' three solo homers, their offense was held in check as their top four hitters went 0-for-16 with five strikeouts. -New York pitchers struck out 10 and walked none in what was a relatively clean game. Devin Williams and Tim Hill each pitched a scoreless inning to end the game. -After going 1-for-2 at the dish with a walk, RBI, run scored and stolen base, Jasson Dominguez was pinch-hit for in the sixth inning. It was announced he left the game with a left thumb contusion. Game MVP: Ryan Yarbrough In need of a win to salvage the series finale and avoid being swept, Yarbrough delivered like he has since making the transition to starter this season. Highlights What's next The Yankees have an off day on Monday to return home before starting back up on Tuesday night against the Cleveland Guardians for a three-game series. First pitch is set for 7:05 p.m. LHP Carlos Rodón (7-3, 2.60 ERA) faces off against RHP Tanner Bibee (4-5, 3.86 ERA).
CBS News
6 hours ago
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- CBS News
Yarbrough shines, Yamamoto falters and Yankees avoid sweep with 7-3 win over Dodgers
Ryan Yarbrough limited baseball's best offense to four 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 avoid getting swept for the first time this season. The Dodgers outscored the Yankees 26-7 in winning the first two games of their World Series rematch, including an 18-2 rout Saturday. But right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the stalwart on a staff ravaged by injuries, labored from the start in front of 54,031, the largest crowd of the season at Dodger Stadium. Yarbrough (3-0) allowed one run and struck out five in his fifth start of the year. He was a reliever for the Dodgers last season and received his World Series ring while in town. Yamamoto (6-4) gave up a season-high seven hits while striking out two in 3 2/3 innings, both season lows. The Japanese right-hander permitted four runs and walked three. New York's DJ LeMahieu had his first four-hit game since 2021. The Yankees led 1-0 on Jasson Domínguez's RBI single in the first. Left fielder Andy Pages' throw sailed over the head of catcher Will Smith. Backing up Smith, Yamamoto made a pinpoint throw to second, but Kiké Hernández dropped the ball and Domínguez was safe. Domínguez later left the game with a bruised left thumb. Tommy Edman tied the game with a two-out homer in the second. After that, Yarbrough retired 13 of his next 15 batters. Pages and Max Muncy homered in the seventh. The Yankees took a 4-1 lead in the third. Rice's 425-foot homer to center field scored Aaron Judge, who walked. Anthony Volpe singled, went to third on Austin Wells' single and scored on Yamamoto's wild pitch. They extended the lead to 6-1 in the fifth on RBI singles by LeMahieu and Oswald Peraza off Lou Trivino. LeMahieu's RBI double made it 7-3 in the ninth. Key moment Judge and Shohei Ohtani were hitless after becoming the first reigning MVPs in major league history to homer in the first inning of a game on Friday. Judge was 0 for 4 with a walk and two strikeouts as the only Yankees player to go hitless. Ohtani went 0 for 4 with a strikeout. Key stat The Yankees are 4-0 this season when facing a series sweep, having beaten Arizona, Detroit, Cleveland and the Dodgers. They're also one of three teams that hasn't been swept in a series of at least two games. ... It was the first time this season the Dodgers' top four hitters went hitless: Ohtani, Teoscar Hernández, Freddie Freeman and Smith. Up next After an off day, Yankees LHP Carlos Rodón (7-3, 2.60 ERA) starts Tuesday against Cleveland. Dodgers RHP Dustin May (3-4, 4.20) pitches Monday night against the New York Mets.
Yahoo
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto runs into problems quickly as Yankees thwart Dodgers sweep
New York Yankees batter Ben Rice, left, hits a two-run home run off Dodgers starting pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto during the Dodgers' 7-3 loss Sunday. (Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press) Dave Roberts downplayed the easy narrative on Sunday afternoon. 'No,' he said when asked if his Dodgers had the New York Yankees' proverbial number, having followed up their defeat of the Bronx Bombers in last year's World Series with two impressive wins to start this weekend's rematch at Dodger Stadium. Advertisement 'I think we've had their number the last two nights,' Roberts said, 'but today's a different day.' Was it ever. Twenty-four hours after a total annihilation of the Yankees in an 18-2 rout on Saturday, the Dodgers suffered the kind of setback that has so often plagued them this season, squandering the chance to build momentum in a 7-3 loss that prevented a series sweep. Read more: Hernández: How Japan media track down Ohtani's home-run balls For as complete a performance as the Dodgers (36-23) put together Saturday, they looked equally out of sorts in a Sunday Night Baseball finale, getting a rare bad start from Yoshinobu Yamamoto, mistakes on defense and base paths that cost them early runs, and virtually nothing from a lineup that looked largely discomobulated against funky left-hander (and former Dodger) Ryan Yarbrough. Advertisement They might have come out of the weekend with a marquee series win, continuing to nurse a narrow lead in the National League West standings. But, they invited more scrutiny over their inconsistent start to the season with a finale flop. Yamamoto had been the one constant in the Dodgers' injury-plagued rotation. His 1.97 earned-run average was second in the NL. His 64 innings not only led the team, but were almost twice as many as anyone else besides Dustin May. Yamamoto had an impressive track record against the Yankees (36-22), too, shutting them out over seven innings in New York last June before delivering 6 ⅓ innings of one-run ball in Game 2 of the World Series. Advertisement On Sunday, however, he couldn't consistently find the strike zone or execute his trademark splitter. And after scoring just two runs in their previous 15 innings in this series, the Yankees finally came to life at the plate. In the first, Trent Grisham singled and Ben Rice walked before Jason Domínguez dumped a line drive into left, driving in a run when Andy Pages airmailed his throw to home plate. In the third, a leadoff walk to Judge was followed by a two-run homer to Rice — Yamamoto missing badly with two splitters in the first at-bat before leaving one hanging in the next. Later in the frame, the Yankees scored again after Yamamoto gave up two singles and spiked a splitter for a run-scoring wild pitch. Advertisement And with two outs in the fourth, Roberts pulled Yamamoto, his pitch count having ballooned to 96 on a day he gave up a season-high in hits (seven) and walked three others. It was the first time this year that Yamamoto, whose ERA rose to 2.39, had failed to complete the fifth. The Dodgers faltered in other ways, as well. After his first-inning throwing error, Pages made a mistake on the bases in the second. Following a one-out double, he was thrown out on an over-aggressive steal of third. That meant that when Tommy Edman homered moments later — his first long ball in 17 games, snapping him out of a recent funk at the plate — it was only a solo blast, temporarily tying the game before the Yankees answered in the next half-inning. There would be no counter-punch from Dodgers' offense, which was missing Mookie Betts for a third-straight game because of a toe fracture (Betts said before the game his toe was starting to feel better, and went through pregame activities in hopes of avoiding a stint on the injured list). Advertisement Read more: Dodgers remind baseball world how good they can be in blowout win over Yankees Instead, Yarbrough cruised against the team that dealt him away at last year's trade deadline. Even though he never hit 90 mph with his fastball, he induced a string of soft contact while striking out five in a six-inning start. Yarbrough was especially effective against the top of the Dodgers' order, which went a combined 0 for 16. The Dodgers did show some life after Yarbrough's exit, with Pages and Max Muncy each taking reliever Jonathan Loáisiga deep within the space of three at-bats. But by then, it was much too little, much too late — resulting in the Dodgers' second straight series in which they failed to complete a sweep, and yet another momentum-halting loss in a season plagued by a few too many of them. Sign up for more Dodgers news with Dodgers Dugout. Delivered at the start of each series. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
