The Dodgers held disconnected a precocious Yankees comeback effort connected Saturday successful Game 2 of nan World Series - but saw their prima man Shohei Ohtani get injured successful nan process.
LA won 4-2 to return a 2-0 bid lead pursuing a nervy last inning which saw nan visitors load nan bases.
Alex Vesia was capable to decorativeness disconnected nan crippled aft Blake Treinen allowed a Giancarlo Stanton RBI and deed Anthony Rizzo pinch a pitch, but nan greater interest now will beryllium Ohtani's wellness aft nan Japanese superstar suffered a enarthrosis injury.
Ohtani near nan crippled successful nan bottommost of nan seventh inning aft attempting to bargain 2nd guidelines and getting tagged out.
He walked disconnected pinch nan thief of a trainer and grimaced successful symptom arsenic he near nan field.
Freddie Freeman deed a location tally for nan 2nd consecutive nighttime arsenic nan Dodgers won again
But Shohei Ohtani was injured trying to bargain 2nd guidelines successful nan bottommost of nan seventh inning
It remains to beryllium seen whether aliases not he'll beryllium disposable for Game 3, which will beryllium connected Monday successful New York.
Dodgers head Dave Roberts called nan wounded a near shoulder subluxation, which is simply a partial dislocation.
LA scored each 4 of their runs disconnected of homers, arsenic Tommy Edman, Teoscar Hernandez and Freddie Freeman each went deep.
New York, earlier their precocious push, were kept quiet by Yoshinobu Yamamoto speech from Juan Soto hitting a game-tying solo location tally successful nan apical of nan 3rd inning.
Yamamoto allowed conscionable 1 deed complete 6 1/3 innings, and retired his past 11 batters and 15 of his last 16 aft Soto's location run.
Soto besides singled successful nan ninth and scored connected Stanton's one-out deed disconnected nan third-base bag. Jazz Chisholm Jr. singled and Rizzo was past deed by a pitch, loading nan bases. Treinen past struck retired Anthony Volpe earlier Vesia relieved.
Forty-five of 56 teams holding 2-0 World Series leads person gone connected to triumph nan title.
New York´s Aaron Judge went 0 for 4 pinch 3 strikeouts and is hitting .150 pinch six RBIs and 19 strikeouts successful 40 postseason at-bats.
Freeman, meanwhile, has homered successful 4 consecutive Series games making love to Atlanta´s past 2 games against Houston successful 2021. That is 1 awkward of nan grounds held by nan Astros´ George Springer.
Aaron Judge reacts aft striking retired against nan Los Angeles Dodgers successful nan ninth inning
Yoshinobu Yamamoto had a beardown outing for nan Dodgers arsenic he allowed conscionable 1 hit
All 3 Dodgers homers came connected fastballs from Yankees starter Carlos Rodón, whose 31 longballs allowed during nan regular play tied for second-most successful nan awesome leagues.
Los Angeles had back-to-back Series homers for conscionable nan 2nd time, aft Pedro Guerrero and Steve Yeager connected against Yankees lefty Ron Guidry for a 2-1 triumph successful Game 5 successful 1981.
Rodón allowed 4 runs and six hits successful 3 1/3 innings.
Los Angeles took a 2-0 Series lead for nan first clip since 1988, erstwhile Kirk Gibson´s walk-off homer against Oakland´s Dennis Eckersley won nan opener and Orel Hershiser followed pinch a three-hit shutout.
The Yankees are 0-2 for nan first clip since 2001, erstwhile they rebounded to triumph 3 consecutive astatine location and mislaid Games 6 and 7 astatine Arizona.