LOS ANGELES — Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed one hit over 6 1/3 innings, Freddie Freeman homered for the second straight night and the Los Angeles Dodgers hit three early longballs off Carlos Rodón to beat the New York Yankees 4-2 on Saturday for a 2-0 World Series lead.
Tommy Edman and Teoscar Hernández also went deep for the Dodgers, who watched superstar slugger Shohei Ohtani walk off the field with a partially dislocated left shoulder at the end of the seventh inning.
After the Yankees closed to 4-2 on Giancarlo Stanton’s RBI single in the ninth against Blake Treinen, Alex Vesia relieved with the bases loaded and retired pinch-hitter Jose Trevino on a first-pitch flyout for the save.
Yamamoto gave up Juan Soto’s third-inning homer, then retired his last 11 batters.
”I was really looking forward to this game,” he said through a translator, ”and I’m glad that we had a great ending.”
Soto also singled off the wall in the ninth and scored on Stanton’s one-out hit off the third-base bag. Jazz Chisholm Jr. singled and Anthony Rizzo was hit by a pitch, loading the bases. Treinen then struck out Anthony Volpe before Vesia completed a four-hitter.
Ohtani got hurt on a feetfirst slide when he was caught stealing second base to end the seventh.
”He had a little left shoulder subluxation. We’re going to get some tests at some point tonight or tomorrow, and then we’ll know more in the next couple of days,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “The strength was great. The range of motion good, so we’re encouraged. But obviously I can’t speculate because (he didn’t) get the scans yet. So once we have the scans, we’ll know more. But again, with the strength, the range of motion good, that’s certainly a positive.”
