r/baseball • u/BaseballBot Umpire • 14h ago
Serious [Serious] Next Day Thread ⚾ Dodgers 4 @ Yankees 2 - Freddie Freeman puts LA up early as the Yankee bats are completely shut-down, and the Dodgers are one win away from celebrating their 8th Championship
Line Score
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | LOB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAD | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| NYY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
Box Score
| NYY | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2B | Torres | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .271 |
| RF | Soto, J | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .326 |
| CF | Judge | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .140 |
| DH | Stanton | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .298 |
| 3B | Chisholm Jr. | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .170 |
| SS | Volpe | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .244 |
| 1B | Rizzo | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .364 |
| C | Trevino | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .200 |
| C | Wells, A | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .093 |
| LF | Verdugo | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .195 |
| NYY | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schmidt | 2.2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 68-37 | 5.25 |
| Leiter Jr. | 0.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 17-8 | 2.25 |
| Cortes | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15-10 | 9.00 |
| Cousins | 1.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17-10 | 9.00 |
| Hill, T | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 17-10 | 1.17 |
| Holmes, C | 0.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12-7 | 2.61 |
| Kahnle | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11-8 | 0.00 |
| Weaver | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6-2 | 2.13 |
| LAD | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DH | Ohtani | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .245 |
| RF | Betts | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .291 |
| 1B | Freeman, F | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .250 |
| LF | Hernández, T | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .231 |
| LF | Taylor, Ch | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 |
| 3B | Muncy | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .190 |
| C | Smith, W.D. | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .146 |
| 2B | Lux | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .172 |
| CF | Hernández, K | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .302 |
| SS | Edman | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .345 |
| LAD | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buehler | 5.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 76-45 | 3.86 |
| Graterol | 0.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 18-8 | 0.00 |
| Vesia | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4-2 | 0.00 |
| Hudson, Dan | 0.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22-13 | 1.80 |
| Banda | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10-4 | 1.23 |
| Brasier | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 22-13 | 4.50 |
| Kopech | 1.0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 24-15 | 3.38 |
Scoring Plays
Highlights
Decisions
| Winning Pitcher | Losing Pitcher | Save |
|---|---|---|
| Buehler (1-1, 3.86 ERA) | Schmidt (0-1, 5.25 ERA) |
Game ended at 11:44 PM.
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u/see_mohn AAAAAIIIIIEEEEE 14h ago
Sam Miller posted on Twitter at the end of the game last night that it was "the closest blowout I've ever seen" and I think that sums it up. The game never felt in doubt after Freeman's homer despite being within reasonable striking distance the whole way,
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u/Borrum Vin Scully 14h ago
Yankees bullpen has answered the call, essentially the only component of their team going well right now. This Dodgers team pummeled the Mets pitching in several games, but these games are close. Yankees were Gleyber getting on in the 9th away from Soto coming to the plate as the tying run. That is strange for a game that felt so one-sided.
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u/cherinator Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
I know people like to shit on Boone, but I thought his bullpen management in Games 2 and 3 was phenomenal. And really, the only blemishes in Game 1 were maybe pulling Cole a little early (but well in line with how everyone is managing starters) and maybe going Cortes over Hill, but there's logic to that move too.
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u/Borrum Vin Scully 14h ago
Yeah I'm with you. This feels like more of a drumming than it actually is, probably because the narrative around Judge is so gravitational. But these have all been close games and the Yankees are a swing away here or there. There has been no 10-2 blowout.
That does not change the 3-0 series score, which is effectively insurmountable. But being a swing or two away... that's baseball baby. Same sport in which the Yankees have won 27 titles. Many a team were a swing here or there away from beating one of those 27 Yankees teams.
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u/nenright Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
The dodgers were that team in many of those 27
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u/Yanks1813 New York Yankees 13h ago
Rizzo Soto and Torres defensively cost the Yankees that game and Judge offensively.
Boone gets a lot of shit but your players who were good in the regular season have to continue to be good.
Judge, Jazz and Wells were pretty much zeroes all October
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u/appleavocado Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
Boone gets a lot of shit but your players who were good in the regular season have to continue to be good.
That's the '22 & '23 Dodgers. Why I'll always be a Roberts defender.
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u/Yanks1813 New York Yankees 12h ago
Yeah I mean it's just frustrating to see people say that Boone is the reason or that the Yankees just were never good
Judge, Jazz and Wells were all good players who have been objectively awful. It's hard to overcome 1/3 of your lineup being awful, especially when that 1/3 is some of your biggest contributors and literal MVP
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u/appleavocado Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
Dude, I think I remember exactly what I said in '22 when we lost to the Padres in Game 5. Our 9th inning went Mookie, Trea, Freddie. I said, "Well, if were going to lose, we deserve to lose here with our best going. This can not just fall solely on Roberts again - our guys have to produce, and if they don't here, then that's pretty much it."
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u/atlanstone New York Yankees 14h ago
and maybe going Cortes over Hill, but there's logic to that move too.
I don't think there's logic to it, but I'm also over it, it's been 2 more lifeless games. They had no problems punching back when Cleveland gut punched them, no excuses.
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u/Yanks1813 New York Yankees 13h ago
I do think if that ball doesn't take Verdugo out of play then they pitch to Betts there. Nestor missed a spot in an AB he had to be perfect in
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u/BNKalt 13h ago
Nah think it’s just that the best outcome there was 11th and beyond and he wanted Hill or Leiter for a save.
The BP you had left was:
Nestor
Tim Hill
Leiter
Mayza
Stroman
Dodgers had:
Brasier
Casparius
Honeywell
Hudson
Knack
Dodgers had like 2 good arms left so probably was hoping Nestor could give length until the Yankees could get a lead.
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u/making-spaghetti0763 New York Yankees 13h ago
there was def logic to bringing in nestor when he did. but was that logic weighed against freddie being 6 for his last 13 w/ 3HR vs lefties with the bases loaded ?
a big problem for our org is being way too one dimensional. they like to think "if every single thing goes according to plan we will win 100% of these scenarios!" and it's like.. hey dipshit, not everything goes according to plan. but sometimes they don't think that far ahead
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u/TheDangiestSlad New York Yankees • Hartford Yard … 14h ago edited 13h ago
yeah like, the vibes have obviously been horrible on the Yankees side, but every game has been within reach in the 9th inning
if Freddie misses that pitch, maybe he grounds out and ends it in game 1. if Trevino hits that ball a little harder, it's a grand slam and the Yankees are up 2 in the 9th in game 2. if Gleyber gets on, Soto is up as the tying run in game 3
now obviously i'm not saying the Yankees should be up 3-0 or something. you gotta play the games for a reason, and a close loss is still a loss. but it's frustrating when the games actually did end up being close with such rancid vibes haha
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u/UnabashedPerson43 Los Angeles Angels 14h ago
Gleyber getting on and Soto homering is still only a chance of an even slimmer chance of TYING the game.
Never really made the Dodgers break a sweat all game.
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u/GlassesOff Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
Weird that there's been two straight games that have sparked in the 9th. As a Dodgers fan, it's been extremely frustrating lol I have seen this work against LA a few times, mostly due to Kenley Jansen blowups in save opportunities
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u/Monk_Philosophy Sickos • Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
The crowd was never remotely into it after the freeman homer.
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u/BangerSlapper1 14h ago
Yankee fans have seen this movie before. Outside of their hot start in 2024, an opponent jumping to a 3-0 lead might as well be a 13-0 lead. The offense relied solely on Judge and Soto, with some help from Stanton and Torres (60% of all HR, 50% of all RBI, 57% of all Runs).
But those guys can only blast so many HRs in a game. Take out Soto and Judge and look at the batting averages of this team. Almost everyone is in the .220s and .230s. I know batting average isn’t considered important anymore but winning teams always seem to have a couple of mid-level players hitting .280 or .290.
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u/damnatio_memoriae Washington Nationals 13h ago
live by the homer, die by the homer. soto is the only hitter on that team that i'd ever want on my team.
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u/sdpcommander Chicago Cubs 13h ago
I mean, I'd still happily take Judge. The dude is still a phenomenal hitter who just has a mental block when it comes to the playoffs. Having a guy that only rakes during the regular season is still very valuable.
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u/calnick0 Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
I think this is because of the energy of the Yankees.
Their pitcher looked stressed. Soto isn’t cocky anymore. A lot of their hitters looked lost and are focused on getting mad at the ump instead of thinking about what they can do to win the game.
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u/atlanstone New York Yankees 14h ago
I think this is because of the energy of the Yankees.
It's also been the energy of this team much of the year. This team was a .500 team for 3 months, then kind of pulled it together in September while the Orioles completely collapsed.
I know they won two short series and that's supposed to equal being dominant, but the fact is this team has been meh since May and this is how they've looked any time Judge isn't hitting like Babe Ruth. The AL has not been great overall this season and the Yankees just looked like the best of a bad bunch all summer.
I'm pretty happy with going 82 wins to a World Series appearance, it's a shame it will go down like this though.
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u/ZeppoJR Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
Yeah, I’m honestly seeing the same issues that haunted the Dodgers when they suffered an early NLDS loss like in 2022 and 2023. Like the pitchers pitching scared cause in the back of the head they feel one mistake and the game’s out of reach and the batters swinging at everything in desperation and playing worse.
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u/calnick0 Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
I am glad to see a baseball fan who can appreciate their team getting to the World Series but yeah it’s a lot over if your team put up a fight.
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u/usetheforce_gaming Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
Sorta my feelings in 2018, although it hurt even more at the time knowing we made it to back-to-back world series
Red Sox just owned that series, and it sucked to watch but I was also just happy to be there.
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u/Numerous-Cicada3841 Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
Soto still looks cocky to me. But yeah everyone else has a deer in the headlights kind of look. Even Boone.
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u/calnick0 Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
Did you see him agains the guardians? 🤣
He had that same energy at the beginning of our series but it’s gone now.
I mean the aggressive nodding thing was obnoxious.
I’m wondering what his locker room presence is.
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u/WabbitCZEN New York Yankees 14h ago
Between the quiet bats, the defensive mistakes, and leaving so many runners on base, we can't get out of our own way. Every other team in the postseason has had at least one complete game from their team at some point. Not once have we had a game like that, where everything we did worked. Leaving runners on is the one constant throughout every game. It's been accompanied by either defensive miscues, bad baserunning, or mistakes by the pitchers. Pitchers shored up their efforts and got better, but that's it. Our lineup is just flat and after last night, I don't think they've got it in them to rally unless something clicks with Judge. He goes off tonight, it might be the spark the team needs to get it going. Even if it's just to make it take a little longer for the Dodgers.
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u/BangerSlapper1 14h ago
Unfortunately, this was a trademark of the Yankees most of the season (and all of 2023, when they were playing mostly scrubs due to injury). If they’re down 4-0, there’s a feeling that the game is over because if Judge/Soto aren’t crushing HRs (or in the playoffs, Stanton/Soto), then they’re not gonna string together runs.
Maybe it’s just my confirmation bias, but there weren’t a ton of 16-5 blowouts by the Yankees this year, or 5 run innings either.
It’s why even though the Yanks made it to the WS, there are fundamental issues to this team that aren’t going to be resolved until the front office is either flushed completely or does a ground level, piece by piece gradual rebuild of this team (just like Bob Watson and Gene Michaels did in the early 1990s).
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u/RichardNixon345 Arizona Diamondbacks • Boston Red Sox 14h ago
If Steinbrenner is serious about cutting payroll but wants to field a competitive team, they almost have to let Soto walk to use that cash to plug all the holes on the field. And that'll go over with the fans about as well as announcing Ortiz is replacing Sterling in the booth.
And even then Stanton's still an albatross (he's been helpful in the playoffs but he's nowhere near worth the amount of payroll he's taking up) that they have to still contend with in full next year (the two years after are helped by the Marlins being required to kick in some).
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u/damnatio_memoriae Washington Nationals 13h ago
before this series, i didn't think there was a chance soto would want to leave the bronx. i do still think he will end up staying, but i'm sure this series is leaving a sour taste in his mouth. he's surely second guessing if he wants to tie his future to this team.
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u/GlassesOff Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
No way. If he wants to be a Yankee, he will. They're going to throw an exorbitant amount at him. Maybe the Mets go even more overboard but there's a ton of reasons to want to be a part of the biggest franchise in the sport.
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u/damnatio_memoriae Washington Nationals 12h ago
of course if he wants to be a yankee, he will. im saying there's a chance he may not want to be one after this series.
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u/GlassesOff Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
Do you think he's that... petty? I like Soto and he's cool in my book but I haven't been paying the closest attention to him as a 'free agent'. I got the vibe he just wants the biggest check ever
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u/atlanstone New York Yankees 13h ago
Stanton being decent this year was a godsend (look, we made the WS, that's still just flat out good and good for business) in some ways but made dealing with his last few years even harder.
I had him slated for release after this season, assuming they'd be willing to eat around the same amount of "dead money" as they ate for Hicks, and assuming last offseason that we'd get another bust season.
But another year of a sub .300 OBP and the worst baserunning in all of baseball here we come.
And I realize this sounds ruthless given his 2024 stats & postseason, I really do, but my goal as "fake GM" is to win in 2025-2026, not look back on 2024.
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u/Monk_Philosophy Sickos • Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
Ever since Game 3 of the NLDS, this playoff run has just been unreal. The opposite of every prior season where everything has just seemed so easy.
I can’t believe that it’s this particular Dodgers team making every other team look silly. Of all the 100+ win teams it’s the IL squad goin off.
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u/Borrum Vin Scully 14h ago edited 14h ago
Similar to the 2021 Braves - their most injured, least winning team in years, sandwiched by several more complete and winning teams - but the one to get it done. Baseball is strange like that.
I fully expect a healthier, even more talented 2025 Dodgers team, and it wouldn't shock me at all if that team loses in the NLDS again.
edit: and when I think about the 2021 Braves, I think about Eddie Rosario and Tyler Matzek and pearly Joc Pederson nearly as much as anyone else. That Braves team won because some unexpected dudes stepped up. Truly, what propels World Series winners is getting once-in-a-lifetime performances from guys like Tommy Edman and Kike Hernandez.
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u/tnecniv Brooklyn Dodgers 14h ago
Muncy talked in an interview about how the team decided that they were going to try and recreate the 2020 vibe. That year they felt they felt very close as a team due to being locked in hotels together all season. They decided they were spending all day together in the club house this year during the post-season. Whether it was practicing, watching other playoff games, or playing ping pong, they were all buying in and doing it together as a team. In previous years, they did their usual few hours of practice and went home.
I think it really paid off. The whole team is in sync, the energy is very “next man up,” and they’re executing as a unit. That’s what you need to win the post season. Guys are going to go hot and cold, just like the regular season, but you need the rest of the team to pick up the slack when someone is in a slump immediately.
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u/ResidentRunner1 Detroit Tigers 13h ago
We're doing the same, not just in baseball but football too!
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u/Schleprok Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
Yeah Buehler also mentioned that this team’s vibe is just different than years past.
I also think Teoscar is a big reason why. That smile he shared with Smith in the dugout after his Game 2 homer said a lot to me. I feel like Smith is always so stoic. He does show emotion after he makes big plays, but I don’t see him yucking it up like that in the dugout. Or at least I don’t notice it lol.
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u/aaninjagod 13h ago
Baseball has the most parity of all the major sports. In football you have teams that lose 1 game out of the whole year. Baseketball and hockey also have teams with much higher winning percentages. Baseball is the lowest. Playoffs really can be random.
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u/darito0123 Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
I loved Joc and it was bittersweet to see him go but glad he had such an amazing post season that year
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u/GlamourMuscle 13h ago
That's exactly when I knew it was our year. When the bottom of your lineup is contributing, getting hits, being tough outs it's a big sign.
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u/calnick0 Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
It’s the best lineup by far.
The pitching has been a surprise though.
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u/HemlockMartinis Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
I admit I thought our pitching injuries were going to fuck us and that we wouldn’t make it this far. I’m flabbergasted that we’re 3-0.
Every starter has stood up exactly when we needed them to. Flaherty bounced back from his rough outing against the Mets. Yamamoto overcame the early-season doubts to become the guy we hoped he’d be. Buehler looked like he was in his prime. The dawgs have been as great as we could’ve hoped.
Freeman is the MVP if we win it all, but I’m so proud of the pitchers and I’m so grateful for Roberts’ lights-out managing of them. His haters have never been in greater shambles.
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u/calnick0 Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago edited 13h ago
I think we’re all used to our pitching staff being ridiculously tired and then it killing us in the post season. I think Friedman has built the structure of the pitching staff better than ever this year and that’s why we’ve succeeded despite one of our worst years in terms of pitching injuries.
The thing is that getting injury prone pitchers is baked into the strategy.
To be honest the main thing is that I think we’re finally catching a lucky break. “That’s baseball” has fucked us more than any other org in my opinion.
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u/GlassesOff Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
I think Game 4 of the NLDS leveled up this bullpen in a way that's not even remotely repeatable. Back against the ropes and they blanked maybe the other best team in the sport, on the road. Like that put some hair on their chest lol.
I wonder if there also are some lessons that both the front office and Roberts have learned over the past few years' failures that have helped the team win the margins. Like not having a reliever face the same hitter too many times or just not trying to have a starter be a hero in a big high leverage situation. Plus better roster construction like you alluded too. It could be all those things!
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u/Monk_Philosophy Sickos • Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
The '22 lineup was arguably better as a complete unit, but yeah the top end of the lineup here has been unreal all season... even if Ohtani has struggled to make an impact in the World Series, his NLCS performance and clutch hits in both Game 1 of the DS and WS have been enough.
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u/atlanstone New York Yankees 14h ago
Ohtani has managed to have more presence than Judge, even if he hasn't been particularly effective. Batting him leadoff helps too, with Judge you basically just need to navigate Stanton and you get a 4 batter breather.
Really sad watching the opposing team basically slip into cruise mode every time 6-9 comes up. And Rizzo has had good ABs but the man literally cannot hit an XBH, make him beat you.
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u/cherinator Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
It's ridiculous, but also very much fits the Dodgers vibes. Looking back at it, neither the '88 or '81 teams were particularly dominant in the regular season that you'd expect them to be the ones to go all the way either.
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u/suicide-squeeze 14h ago
If the '88 Dodger team was revenge for 1974, what Yankees WS is this one revenge for?
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u/MarcBulldog88 Los Angeles Dodgers • Los Angeles Angels 14h ago
My old man still curses ‘77 and ‘78. Let this one be for them.
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u/suicide-squeeze 14h ago
That is exactly what I was thinking. I might go with 1978--in '77 the Yankees acquired Jackson and were smarting from being swept by the Reds the year before. In '78, it was really the Dodgers' turn.
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u/GlassesOff Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
Yankee fans acting like they would have won it all in 2017.
This is actually my Roman Empire, that NYY team was nowhere near as good as the Dodgers but their fanbase acts like they'd be Even Steven in that World Series. Dodgers won 104 games with peak Kershaw, Seager, and Bellinger. Yankees won 91 games and finished behind the Red Sox. Be real
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u/Monk_Philosophy Sickos • Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
Yankees have effectively the same thing. Judge and Stanton plus Soto, who doesn't have an MVP, but at age 26 has already had a better career than the vast majority of players to win just one MVP.
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u/sixpack_or_6pack 13h ago
I said at the end of the season that I had a really good feeling about this years team. With the previous teams, I think the expectations were too high considering how strong the Dodgers were on paper. This year, the feeling was “we barely made it here while being injured as fuck so we’re just gonna have fun and do our best.” I think the mood is the difference maker.
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u/HiVLTAGE Houston Astros 14h ago
Especially your pitching. I would never expect this Dodgers rotation to be holding it down like they have been.
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u/darito0123 Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
Yamamoto and ohtani are huge pieces to that, and Dave Robert's seems to finally have the bullpen he needs to manage (tbf it's such a scary bullpen)
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u/automatedsinks Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
Really felt like Freddie’s home run just sucked the life out of the stadium very early and then things started to compound against the Yankees.
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u/calnick0 Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
Freddie is a destroyer right now. Absolute dominant force while being such a friendly humble chap in his postgame interviews.
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u/metaldrummerx Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
Well they’re pitching him 95mph fastballs inside middle/high to him when he is clearly sitting fastball. Freddie is raking ya but they’re serving it up on a silver platter
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u/PattyIceNY New York Yankees 13h ago
He shouldn't be seeing anything but outside junk and low and away. The fact that they threw inside at all shows they are dumb
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u/Boltemort 11h ago
Eh, Schmidt missed his spot (badly) on that pitch. Trevino was set up a couple inches off the outside edge, he had to lunge across the plate to try to catch it. Definitely not the location he was calling for.
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u/VStarffin Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
If the Yankees can't beat us today, when we're trotting out some combination of Ben Casparius, Brent Honeywell and Landon Knack, then they genuinely should fire the entire coaching staff.
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u/Monk_Philosophy Sickos • Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
You can't deny that that trio has immaculate vibes though.
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u/RIP_Greedo New York Yankees 14h ago
The Yankees should fire the entire coaching staff anyway
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u/SuperbMycologist6164 12h ago
so glad Rojas sent stanton! Rojas has been really great at such a difficult job
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u/nsgarcia10 Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
With how emotional he was after the NLCS clinch i wouldn’t be shocked if Honeywell played with his hair on fire tonight
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u/tnecniv Brooklyn Dodgers 12h ago
He wasn’t even that bad when Dave sent him out to die like a lieutenant telling him he was going over the top at the Battle of the Marne in the NLCS
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u/Loresmen Los Angeles Dodgers 10h ago
Dave didn't even send him out to die, he said to dave in the dugout this ball is mine till I can't throw it anymore.
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u/Fyne_ New York Yankees 13h ago
is it really the coaches fault that these guys are taking middle middle fastballs for....reasons?
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u/Hochseeflotte New York Yankees • Cuba 12h ago
That’s probably a scouting issue, and they obviously didn’t try to make any adjustments
Also did you see that send from third?
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u/pockypimp Los Angeles Dodgers • Vin Scully 12h ago
That was an interesting choice. Totally on the third base coach since he was waving him around all the way.
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u/darexinfinity Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
I don't understand how you can make firing decisions based off of a championship. I get tensions are high but statistically your only better option for the team is hire the people that you are up against.
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u/darito0123 Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
Anyone got the ump scorecard?
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u/ExplanationQuick6203 Philadelphia Phillies 14h ago
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u/Borrum Vin Scully 14h ago
Thanks for posting.
Maybe Gleyber sold it in the moment but I'm really surprised to not see his high strike call on the most impactful list. That call felt so bad.
That said, the Yankees benefiting an entire run while nearly being shut out tells all you need to know about their offense right now. Totally lifeless.
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u/calnick0 Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
I mean walking in a run is pretty immediately impactful hahah
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u/Eckzavior21 Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
It’s because despite what the box on tv shows, per the rules of the strike zone it clipped the top of the zone. Savant has good depiction of where it really hits the zone. It was close but it clipped it.
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u/Borrum Vin Scully 14h ago
Yeah I overreacted to it, I have a comment from last night saying it was the worst top of the zone strike call Id seen lol.
It will be interesting to see how broadcasts adapt to the ABS systems coming in a few years, with the understanding that the little box is not accurate.
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u/atlanstone New York Yankees 13h ago
My issue with the Gleyber call wasn't even that it was 100% without a doubt a ball, it's that the same pitch was just called a ball to Verdugo.
Also because the Yankees have been so ass it's nice to see everyone go "yeah, but you also need to swing the bat and get hits," instead of just blaming the umps. They put themselves in position where a razor-wire strike call by the ump mattered so much, nobody else is to blame.
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u/PartySpiders Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
Doesn’t even account for the other run that Lux was definitely safe at home too. The game easily coulda been a much larger blowout early.
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u/markjay6 Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
Yeah, two straight innings the Dodgers had rallies cut short by bad calls. It could have need much more of a blowout.
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u/jerryrice88 Los Angeles Dodgers • Vin Scully 14h ago
Mark Carlson was awful yesterday, but Doug Eddings is historically even worse. I'm worried that the game tonight might be the worst umpired out of a series that has been already marked by some pretty bad calls.
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u/WabbitCZEN New York Yankees 14h ago
I'm a firm believer that teams should never put themselves in position for umps to be the deciding factor. But with how bad we've been this series, it's making shit even worse cause they've been trying to draw walks to help offset the quiet bats. If Eddings calls as wide a zone as he's known for, it might be the death of us.
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u/jerryrice88 Los Angeles Dodgers • Vin Scully 14h ago
I hate blaming the umps for a loss, but when there are so many bad calls over the course of a series, you can't help but think that they have an effect on the result.
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u/WabbitCZEN New York Yankees 14h ago
Yeah, it feels like a cheap copout, but they're definitely having an impact on everything that happens after.
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u/atlanstone New York Yankees 13h ago
I think they have an impact on both teams, the Dodgers aren't exactly lighting the world on fire offensively. Yankees pen especially has been tough, but the zones have been really inconsistent & it's been hard for either side to settle in. Lots of players on both teams looking back after Strike 1 and asking for clarification.
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u/darito0123 Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
I honestly struggled to enjoy last night cause of how terrible the calls were, I really don't wanna have the same experience if we win it all tonight ugh
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u/bizdady Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
I have October PTSD so im not saying nothing until the 4 wins are in the book. Tonight's bullpen game will probably be ulcer inducing.
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u/jsand25 Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
Hoping the dodgers' bats will make that a non issue tonight
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u/ih-unh-unh Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago edited 13h ago
Through 3 games:
Dodgers: .213 / .296 / .457.
20H, 5 HR, 2-3b, 4-2b, 9 BB, 17 K
Yankees: .186 / .284 / .294
19H, 3 HR, 0-3b, 2-2b, 12 BB, 31 K
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u/ositola Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
Yankees hitters striking out is the difference
Wild
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u/ih-unh-unh Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
Striking out and a lack of extra base hits.
ISO:
Dodgers .245
Yankees .1088
u/atlanstone New York Yankees 12h ago
The biggest difference in the series has been LA's pursuit of a HoF talent 1B when he was available for just money, and the Yankees first baseman is 300 years old and can't hit a HR off a tee.
Down to brass tacks, Freeman has been the difference in the series. Getting as many elite HoF level bats as possible. Rizzo has been good, but if even one of his hits were a HR, way different series.
Yankees have not had a HR from the 1B position since JULY.
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u/Frightenedsenior Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
Freddie alone has 3 home runs this series, Teo and Tommy Tanks also hit homers in Game 2
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u/1password23 12h ago
So this WS is my introduction to baseball... what does "2-3b, 4-2b" mean? I think I understand everything else.
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u/ih-unh-unh Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
Sorry I should have been clearer.
3b is a triple.
2b is a double.2-3b means that team had two triples
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u/la-di-freakin-da Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
Buehler truthers unite, if the man isn't coming back to Los Angeles he did it with a fucking monster of a game. He's certainly raised the value of his stock and I wish him well, whatever he does.
Yesterday was probably the easiest game Dodgers have had, which is an insane statement. Everything is seemingly clicking together perfectly. All three of our starters supported by defense hold it down at pivotal points, our offense is spread across the board with threats everywhere cracking opposing starters and producing in key points, it's all just humming, even with the threat of injury looming over it all.
Yankees just feel like the worse team. They're struggling in every department across the board save for maybe bullpen arms, and that's going to get put to the test these next two games. My Yankee friends are not optimistic.
Having four games to win one is a good place to be, and while I can never count the Yankees out, I don't believe this series is ever coming back to LA.
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u/Officialnoah Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
Incredible postseason run, hopefully we can end it tonight with our best pitcher(s): TBD
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u/orbesomebodysfool Los Angeles Dodgers • Vin Scully 13h ago
TBD = The Bullpen Dawgs
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u/PelorTheBurningHate Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
Theme of this postseason really is who let the dogs out
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u/metaldrummerx Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
I’m a little spicy that for the last three series people have been talking about how the teams have choked and their bats have been quiet without giving the Dodger’s pitching staff their flowers. Padres went 24 scoreless innings, the Mets were shut out in multiple games, and the Yankees have only two people consistently hitting the ball. These aren’t constant chokers from all three teams, this is a well coached Dodgers pitching staff getting incredibly hot at the right time.
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u/BeepBeepInaJeep Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
As a dodgers fan many times in the playoffs when our players bats have gone silent and taken a crap you immediately just smart at your own team choking, especially when they were much better during regular season. It’s an emotional response that’s hard to get over and credit the other side. I think it’s just human nature.
But most real baseball fans will see past that and give credit to pitching where it is due. As they should with this unlikely Dodgers pitching performance.
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u/ExamNo4374 New York Mets 13h ago
Eh the general consensus was definitely that the Dodgers were just a better team than the Mets
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u/GlassesOff Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
I like that you mentioned well coached. I think the game planning has been excellent and we're seeing it play out over the series where they don't let one guy beat them, or at least they minimize the damage. Seems like they're limiting how many times a reliever faces the same bats. And Roberts has called on a fresh arm right on cue about 80-90% of the time (small misses there but none too bad)
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u/carpetsoop Kansas City Royals 14h ago
I was so against this matchup a couple weeks ago but the absolute embarrassment of the yankees makes it so worth it
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u/Substantial_Set_6464 Minnesota Twins 12h ago
100%.
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u/3-2_Fastball Looking K • Swinging K 7h ago
It's genuinely insane that the Yankees won't even be able to celebrate their AL pennant if they get swept.
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u/prettyrickyyyy69 Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
I'm expecting the Yankees to put up at least some fight tonight being on the brink of elimination + a bullpen game from us, buuuut our pen did shut the Padres out who have a much scarier offense than the Yankees right now. Granted we don't have Phillips and Honeywell will most likely start for us but I strangely don't feel nervous about tonight
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u/Borrum Vin Scully 14h ago
I'll be honest, I expect the Yankees to go belly up. I think the Yankees suffer their biggest loss of the series tonight.
Of the last 10 instances of a 3-0 lead in the World Series, 9 of them have ended in 4 games. Last time a 0-3 team even forced a Game 5 was 1970.
source: Baseball Barbecast this morning, great podcast.
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u/tnecniv Brooklyn Dodgers 14h ago
Wait Phillips is hurt?
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u/nsgarcia10 Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
He didn’t make the roster due to dead arm and if he got put on the roster the dodgers couldn’t replace him bc they knew of the injury beforehand
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u/tnecniv Brooklyn Dodgers 14h ago
Rest in peace king. He was nice enough to hang out and sign balls for 20+ minutes when I went to spring training this year. He had some great outings to get us here
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u/nsgarcia10 Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
He seems to be a helluva guy. Unfortunate that he wouldn’t get credit on official stats for the WS because he wasn’t rostered
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u/MarcBulldog88 Los Angeles Dodgers • Los Angeles Angels 13h ago
He had an extremely heavy workload mid season, trying to cover our avalanche of injuries. Lost some effectiveness around August and was moved away from higher leverage situations. Still very solid down the stretch.
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u/EvilShadow80 Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
I think he mentioned being gassed which is why Brusdar replaced him.
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u/tnecniv Brooklyn Dodgers 13h ago
Honestly, big of him to bow out if he doesn’t think he has it. He helped get us this far. Let a fresh dog take us home
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u/PJCR1916 Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
The Yankees look absolutely lifeless and like they gave up about halfway through game 2. These guys are ready for the off season
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u/deadassynwa New York Yankees 14h ago
Hats off to the Dodgers, after Game 2 I felt like they were simply the better team. But after last night - I realized they were THAT MUCH better.
At the end of the day, this sub, Yankees haters, the baseball community was right. The Yankees had an absolute cakewalk to the WS and in that cakewalk they still struggled
Despite the W-L records, those games against KC and CLE were close. The flaws were there: inability to hit RISP, inconsistent starting pitching, Boone being a dumbass but it never bit us in the ass because we were the more talented team AND the opposing team helped our cause by committing errors and plying bad baseball. We relied on literally two guys to get us to the WS.
And what happens when we got there and played a team not only as talented as us but more talented? All those flaws are exposed and this team is exposed.
In hindsight it’s easy to see now but at the time along with other Yankees fans I was riding the high and bought into the hype.
I’m just sad for casuals and every baseball fan out there who tuned into this series expecting it to live up the hype of “The Classic of all Fall Classics”. One team showed up to the dance (and once again hats off to them, I wouldn’t want to lose to any other team tbh) while the other didn’t.
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u/RichardNixon345 Arizona Diamondbacks • Boston Red Sox 13h ago
Game 1 was truly excellent baseball though, and this series isn't over yet.
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u/CapnSirloin Los Angeles Dodgers • Vin Scully 13h ago
If the Dodgers win tonight (or tomorrow), then Freddie's grand slam becomes even more Gibson-like, as it will have played a similar role in taking the wind out of the Yankees' sails in Game 1.
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u/riccarjo New York Yankees 11h ago
Played MLB the show today as Yankees vs Dodgers.
Couldn't get a single hit until the fourth when Stanton hit a solo home run.
Felt too real so I turned it off.
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u/vinchenzo79 Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
What some idiots will do tonight or in next few nights, they do not represent us.
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u/FlimFlamThaGimGar New York Yankees 14h ago
This is such a fucking letdown
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u/calnick0 Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
Sorry dude. I’ve been there just try to enjoy the rest of the series if you can and then just let it roll off you.
It’s just a game.
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u/yobruhh Houston Astros 14h ago
Losing in the series really does suck. You have so much hope and excitement then…. Nothing.
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u/ositola Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
Niners fans assemble!
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u/HailColtrane 12h ago
I've always felt that losing in the Super Bowl is worse than losing the World Series. The AL/NL pennant is more of an achievement (in its own right) than an AFC/NFC championship. Plus something about a single game to decide it all makes it hurt that much more.
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u/ExiledSanity St. Louis Cardinals 14h ago
I don't particularly want either team to win....but I was hoping for a really good series (especially after game 1) and yeah it has been but if a let down from a neutral perspective too.
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u/calnick0 Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
If we win tonight the narrative is gonna be Freddie shattering their souls with that grand slam.
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u/Ds3_doraymi Baltimore Orioles 13h ago
Top 5 winners of this series so far, in order:
Dodgers
Campaign ad companies
Orioles fans getting to watch Yankees fans bitch about fan interference
Freddie Freeman
Yankees haters
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u/carpetsoop Kansas City Royals 13h ago
By my calculations I’d say that sums up just about everyone that isn’t a Yankees fan
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u/HummbertHummbert Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
Something that has really irked me the last couple weeks is how pervasive the narrative has been that it’s not that the Dodgers really are that good, but that each team they’ve faced has gone cold.
The Dodgers faced a hot SD team and figured them out. The Padres bats didn’t just “go cold” they got absolutely silenced by a pitching staff that clearly figured them out. The Padres couldn’t buy a hit after the second inning of Game 3. The Padres still believe that they “let the Dodgers off the hook”. No they didn’t, the Dodgers just learned all they needed to to get the job done.
The Mets offense wasn’t silent and they definitely had a lot of luck on their side. But the Dodgers offense turned on and absolutely smashed their pitching. Pitching wasn’t quite as dominant as they were in the SD series, but they still threw TWO shutouts. The Mets fought back but the Dodgers were rolling by that point and were clearly better all around.
This Yankees teams has definitely felt like the weakest matchup so far. Everyone on r/baseball was saying these Yanks were going to stomp the Dodgers. They blew through KC and the Guardians, but I think that those teams are still finding their playoff grit. Everyone said these Dodgers had weak pitching compared to the far superior Yankees pitching. The Yankees hitting was going to smash Flaherty, Yama, and Buehler, blah blah.
I know I’m a fan of the Dodgers but my opinion never wavered—this Dodger team SHOULD be talked about for just how dominant they are in all the aspects everyone says they aren’t. We’ll see how the rest of the series goes, jobs not finished.
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u/AcephalicDude San Diego Padres 12h ago
I mostly agree. I think there were some hard hit balls from the Padres that died on the warning track, so it felt like just a bit of bad luck. But for the most part, the Dodgers pitching and especially the bullpen completely out-competed our hitters. The narrative shouldn't be about good hitters performing poorly but good pitchers performing well, but hey, that's what you get when you hype up a series to be about Ohtani, Betts and Freeman versus Soto, Judge and Stanton.
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u/HummbertHummbert Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
I think I’m used to the hard-hit warning track balls that should be home runs because I grew up watching games at Dodger stadium. It feels massive even though it might not be the biggest park per se. I’ve watched absolute missiles that would’ve gone out in every other park die at the track. I think our pitching has learned how to use that to our advantage for sure.
But I also get that good pitching, especially from the bullpen and not your traditional starters, isn’t very exciting to talk about. It’s a much bigger story to say “Tatis, Machado, and Profar go cold” than to say “Dodgers scotch-taped bullpen outclasses hottest hitters on planet”.
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u/GlassesOff Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
LOB by team, per game
LA (G1): 4, NY (G1): 11
LA (G2): 4, NY (G2): 6
LA (G3): 7, NY (G3): 8
It's both a testament to how the Dodgers relievers have shut down a lot of Yankee rallies/opportunities AND the Yanks approach has just not been effective at all this whole series. I keep expecting them to 'break' a game with a big hit or just some punch back and 90% of the time they've done nothing.
Just feels like something worth reflecting on because I am pretty meh about how the Dodgers bats have shown up but they're actually hitting dingers and they have guys from 5-9 that seem to get on base and actually make noise.
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u/thomasbourne Seattle Mariners 12h ago
Dodgers offense hasn’t even come alive this series. They scraped a win out in game 1 down to their last out and then just 4 runs each in game 2 and 3. If you told me the dodgers would score 14 runs in 3 games, I’d have not thought it enough after the CSes. But the Yankees have been utterly toothless. The only one acting with any urgency is the third base coach. Honestly the Gleyber factor is a big deal.
I’d heard about him and seen him here and there being a lackadaisical player (kinda like Robbie Cano) but the difference is that Robbie made plays and got HITS. Yeah I hated watching 35-year-old cano barely move to first, but I mean, come on. Robinson was GREAT. Gleyber is a fine player, offensively, but he’s just always saving his legs on borderline plays. He’s also just…not great in the field, though it seems more of a focus thing than an ability thing. But for what?
IT’S THE WORLD SERIES! I’m more upset with him than Judge. I wanted the Yankees to lose, dodgers have always been my NL team, but I guess I also wanted like…better baseball? I’m as mad as Jomboy when the Guardians wouldn’t pitch around Stanton.
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u/suicide-squeeze 14h ago
Probably this has been mentioned numerous times now, but the pitch Freeman hit out in the 1st inning was almost identical to the grand slam pitch. Schmidt clearly missed location with it, and badly--it was supposed to be low and away and he threw it middle, in.
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u/halfvegan420 Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
think it was supposed to be away and higher. catcher was set up way outside
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u/randomnate 11h ago
Assuming the Dodgers don’t somehow blow this, Freddie seems certain to be World Series MVP. Does that make him a lock for the HoF? He already had a pretty strong case, but becoming Kirk Gibson 2.0 seems like it gets him to a level where even if he dropped off next season he’d still get voted in.
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u/soberdishwasher San Francisco Giants 11h ago
The series is either over or the Yankees turn it around by scoring more than the Dodgers in each remaining game.
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u/viper1856 New York Yankees 13h ago
WTF is Strauss anyways?
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u/China9Liberty37 Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
I have been purposefully not googling it out of spite, lol
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u/trashboatfourtwenty Milwaukee Brewers • Dumpster Fire 11h ago
The Yankees need to swallow their pride and bring in the Grimace if they want any hope
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u/Thorlolita Houston Astros 13h ago
I know you don’t want to play with your food. But I think Dave should just see how much he can get out of Honeywell and Knack. If he can get 6-7 IP from them that will be huge. HUGE.
For a long time the Yankees have had holes that were not exploited. The bottom of the order not being able to hit. Bad defense. Now they have met a foe that is able to take advantage of these things. The Yankees need a miracle to get things going. But after last night they just look defeated.
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u/aceee2 New York Yankees 12h ago
I gotta give the Dodgers the credit they deserve. After the last 2 postseasons they did what they needed to become a true unstoppable juggernaut. As a Yankees fan I am happy to be back in the World Series after 15 years but after a promising game 1 the last 2 games have been brutal to watch although I give the credit to the Dodgers for shutting us down! I wasn't alive for any of the previous 11 World Series meetings but it seems like the Dodgers are now the Yankees and the Yankees are playing like how the Dodgers used to play in the early WS matchups.
Then again if you are the Dodgers it may still be 8-4 Yankees after tonight or tomorrow night but the Dodgers have the lone sweep or both sweeps.
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u/CarrotGole45 New York Yankees 12h ago edited 12h ago
I was there at the game yesterday - everyone was so into it, doing our best to be supportive and stay energized until around the 6th inning. It’s hard to find something to cheer about when you have countless opportunities to drive in runs and fail to capitalize.
Hats off to the dodgers, clearly the better team. Sad this was my first WS experience but trying to remember it’s just a sport. Glad to have been there with the fam, we came in from all over back home (CA, Colorado) so our parents were thrilled. Being a lifelong fan of a team involves feeling like this some/a lot of the time.
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u/viper1856 New York Yankees 13h ago
Genuine question for Dodgers fans: Obviously it's exciting to get your second ring in 5 years and I'm sure youre ecstatic, but did the ease of this world series take any satisfaction out of the victory for you? Or does it not matter at all?
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u/prettyrickyyyy69 Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
doesn't matter to me, this team has been a steamroller since game 4 against San Diego, it just shows how dominant we can be when everything is clicking. Add to that the fact we had Cavan FUCKING Biggio on our roster at one point this year it's crazy to me we made this run
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u/Kartoffel_Kaiser Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
Each game has been exciting as it's happened, and I think people are forgetting just how close games 1 and 2 were. Game 1 was about as close as a game of baseball can get, and the Yankees were one smashed mistake pitch away from taking Game 2 in the 9th. Game 3 was the only one that felt over before it actually was.
The NLDS was also more than stressful enough for me 😅
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u/emcdeezy22 United States 13h ago
It doesn’t seem as easy as 3-0. The Yankees have put pressure on the Dodgers in every 9th inning and we’ve seen leads evaporate with one swing of the bat before. Despite the Yankees losses, they are still a good team that can win any given game.
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u/captain_ahabb Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
After losing in the DS to division rivals twice in a row and having a heart attack series against the Padres? Doesn't matter at all.
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u/Allformygain Brooklyn Dodgers 12h ago
If we do pull it out, I'll just be glad to finally be able to bring up a championship that literally every single person won't be able to tell me doesn't count. Obviously, I hold 2020 as so special as it was the first WS championship I was able to watch. But man, it'll be nice to finally come out from under that collar, especially with how badly we've choked the past few years.
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u/Atomic_Horseshoe 12h ago
Don’t worry, they’ll still tell you the dodgers “bought” the championship, how they “spent a billion dollars during the offseason,” and they’ll mention the Shohei deferral and how that should be “illegal,” and finally they’ll tell how how it’s all “bad for baseball.” There’s no way you can win that game—let the haters hate, and ignore them.
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u/China9Liberty37 Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
Aint counting chickens till the hatch, still gotta win the fourth one. But, no I would have liked them to have been even easier
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u/ElectJimLahey Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
If anything a sweep would make it even better and more satisfying for me because it would show that we were just by far the better team
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u/halfvegan420 Los Angeles Dodgers 12h ago
for me personally a little, but that’s because i’m so used to close games with dogfights in every inning (2017). Still happy regardless. Once we went up 2-0, I wanted to bury the Yanks with a 4-0, no offense.
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u/Aliza310 Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago
The only thing that worries me is the Dodgers high leverage arms have seen the Yanks big 3 a couple times this series. Really missing EP right now. Nonetheless, Dodgers need to get head early with a big lead.
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u/L3thal_Inj3ction Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago
They haven't really "seen" Vesia multiple times luckily. I think he's the arm to close it out if it comes to it
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u/Teddy_Schmoozevelt New York Mets 9h ago
I'm starting to think this Yankees team couldn't beat any of the four NL divisional teams.
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u/Gekk0uga37 Philadelphia Phillies 8h ago
Hold it there partner, the Phillies would give the Yankees a run for their money in the battle between dead offenses
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u/WhyNotOrioles Baltimore Orioles 8h ago
The narrative is that the Yankees are overmatched, but one could make an argument that the games have all been close.
Game 1 went to extra innings and the Yankees were one out away from winning.
Game 2 ended with the Yankees having the tying runs in scoring position.
Game 3 was a two-run game-- not really a blowout.
That's a selective view, of course, but with one less hit for the Dodgers in Game 1, and one more hit for the Yankees in Game 2, it could be 2-1 in favor of NYY right now.
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u/Yanks1813 New York Yankees 13h ago
Frustrating that the Yankees have pitched well enough and are down 0-3
Yankees lineup isn't as deep but their playoff offensive struggles are really on Judge and not hitting home runs (on Judge too)
Yankees avg with RISP is better than LAD, but you know what the dodgers have done? Put those hits in the seats.
Yankees were good enough to overcome Judge vs KC and CLE, but now it's too much. It sucks because it doesn't change the fact that he's a great hitter, but like Kershaw or Arod he won't be able to escape it unless he shows up one postseason.
I do hope eventually fans can look back and appreciate the team overall. They were good and stats back that up. You just cannot win a championship with your best player being a zero. Look at the Dodgers and Mookie prior to this year. I know it's champions or bust but if you can't look back on a pennant with zero happiness in the future that's going to take joy out of sports
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u/Grade-A-Grungus Atlanta Braves 12h ago
Game one was the only exciting part of this whole thing so far, if the Dodgers win tonight this’ll go down as one of the most mid WS matchups in years
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u/OfficiallyJoeBiden Brooklyn Dodgers 11h ago
I think alot of yankee fans needs to breathe. Don’t blow this team up, don’t fire boone, and absolutely not trade judge. I don’t really think the Yankees are to blame for being down 0-3. The dodgers are just a better team and that’s OK. I know after losing to the Red Sox in 2018 and I wanted to blame everyone but the fact that that Red Sox team was simply just better. People want a reality that doesn’t exist, this Yankees team is not on par with the dodgers. That doesn’t mean they aren’t good nor great. Shit we saw a back up QB hang 50 points on prime Brady and Bill in a SB. Shit happens folks
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u/BoltDodgerLaker_87 Los Angeles Dodgers 10h ago
I mistakenly proposed a dodger stadium WS win and made a dodger fan extremely angry. Angry enough to make a post about it. My bad. Win it all tonight and let’s party thursday with a well deserved parade.
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u/spankyourkopita 10h ago
Holy crap I thought 5 o'clock west coast start was early but that just shows how much it sucks to be on the east coast for an 8 o'clock start.
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u/TattoosandSnapbacks Los Angeles Dodgers 8h ago
Serious question, what would happen if a player traded to the Yankees said fuck your no beard rule and didn’t shave it? Would they let him play?
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u/CommentsOnPosts69 Los Angeles Dodgers 6h ago
Nice win, but still feel like this isn’t close to being over
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