It was not as important as the Fifth round of match 5 Last year.
But, in the opening competition for a revenge match of the World Series in Chavez Ravine Friday evening, the Riders Mounted another superb rally at the end of the game against New York Yankees.
And this time, they didn’t even need an assist in the porous defense of the Yankees.
Seven months until the day from the Review History of Dodgers At the Yankee Stadium in the World Series final last year – when three Yankees errors contributed to a sad fifth of five points that propelled the Dodgers to the eighth franchise championship – the team produced an equally unexpected magic, marking four times at the end of sixth to transform a deficit into a possible. 8-5 victory In a closed Dodger stadium.
“The situation is a little different,” Shohei Ohtani Said in Japanese: “But I think returning to win is always good.”
It was Ohtani who started the sixth round on Friday, leading her with her second night circuit and the 22nd leader of the MLB of the season.
Freddie Freeman took over from there, hitting a double RBI on the wall to resume his role as Yankees Killer after winning MVP honors in the fall of last year.
Then, which had already been an advance of 5-2 in New York has officially evaporated when Andy pages Bordered a single linked to an inner field. The dodgers finally went to a walk in charge of Michael Comforto bases.
For a team that creaks for a large part of last month, the sequence led to a stage of the stadium level.
“Just put on the guys, keep the line in movement, get huge successes,” said Freeman, “it was great.”
“Each victory is important, (but) it is large,” added the outcry Teoscar Hernández. “We were early, (but) we did not panic.”
Protective facts of the 8-5 victory of dodgers against the Yankees on Friday evening.
For the Dodgers (35-22), nothing compares to the ecstasy of the fifth round last year in match 5; When an abandoned ball of judge Aaron, a wandering launch of Anthony Volpe and poor communication between calamite between Gerrit Cole And Anthony Rizzo seized the biggest return to a game of air conditioning titles in the history of the World Series.
Asked about the similarities with Friday’s match, Freeman said that he “had never thought about it”.
But, given the team’s sub500 in the past three weeks, and a touch of injuries that has worsened on Friday when Mookie Betts was scratched With a fractured toe And Evan Phillips was Excluded for the rest of the season Because he will need Tommy John surgery, Friday injected this testing section of the regular season with a sorely needed life.
“For us, we behind the 8 ball … and finding a way to scratch in the game was huge,” said manager Dave Roberts. “A huge match for us to win.”
The Dodgers andy Pages doller reacts after hitting a single RBI against the Yankees during the sixth round on Friday.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
For a large part of Friday, the Dodgers seemed to be heading for the kind of loss that had become commonplace on their 10-11 slide entering the night.
Their starting launcher fought, with Tony Gonsolin Abandoning four circuits in the first three rounds – including a gigantic explosion of the judge two strikers in the match – to give the Yankees a advance of 5-2.
Their alignment, on the other hand, flouted against a premium launcher, induce little stress against the chief of major leagues Max fried After a Homer Ohtani to start at night.
“After abandoning the circuit (of the judge), I think it is important that the flow of the game recovers one right away,” said Ohtani, the first explosion of which was his sixth circuit of the season. He marked the first time in the history of the MLB that the MVP reignants of the American and national league succeeded in the first round in the same match.
“We were in a bad position after that too,” noted Ohtani, “but not everyone abandoned.”
Indeed, as they did so many times during the World Series of last year, the Dodgers overthrew the script on the Yankees (35-21) with a round that they have never seen coming.
Dodgers Baserunner Freddie Freeman, on the right, beats the label of the New York Austin Wells Yankees receiver to score in the seventh round on Friday.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Ohtani’s essay to direct the sixth was a ball to the Fly on the right, just deep enough to land in the pavilion for his 15th Home Run in May (binding Pedro Guerrero in June 1985 and Duke Snider in August 1953 for a single month in the history of Dodgers).
“The testimony of Shohei,” said Freeman, “who strikes circuits everywhere.”
The rest of the round took place more methodically.
Hernández and Will Smith bordered consecutive singles. Freeman hunted Fried from the match with a double RBI to the left who withdrew Cody Bellingerthe head. Then, after the Yankees turned to the right -hander Jonathan Laáisiga to cope with pages, he hammered a single ball on the ground through an inner field to bring the race home.
“When you can feel a little momentum, guys getting strokes, you try to keep this line in movement,” said Freeman.
Another change of pitch, with the left -handed Tim Hill entering to face comforto with the loaded bases and an outing, did not help either.
“There were a lot of very good strikers Grindy in there, hitting good locations, spoiling some locations,” said Comforto.
Against a ground launcher on the ground in Hill, Conforto adopted a different approach, working a complete count while waiting for something high down and on the plate.
On the ground, however, Comforto “had the impression that he was losing the area a little.”
Thus, when Hill pulled a lead on his gain offer, Comforto took for a ball ball.
“Just a difficult round,” said Yankees manager Aaron Boone.
The Dodgers took more good strikes during the seventh, when another Double of Freeman set up pages for a two -point two -point – with Freeman who runs on his battered right ankle to mark on a Bang -Bang slide.
And after Gonsolin settled to work for six rounds without other damage, the Dodgers enclosure made the main position, obtaining the main withdrawals of Jack Dreyer and Ben Casparius in the seventh, then in difficulty the end of game options in difficulty at the end of the game Tanner Scott In the eighth and Alex Vesia for a backup of ninth round.
“It is still early, it’s still May,” said Gonsolin. “But it’s cool to play this kind of caliber team and go out in mind.”
“We are trying to win every match, of course,” added Ohtani. “But I think that (tonight was) a special atmosphere. I think it was huge to have taken the (first match) of the series.”
