LOS ANGELES – Because the Yankees ready for Friday’s series-opener at Dodger Stadium, Ryan Yarbrough walked off the sector carrying a shiny blue field.
Inside sat a 2024 World Collection ring, loaded with diamonds and Dodger-blue sapphires. The jewellery was Yarbrough’s reward for showing in 32 video games for Los Angeles final season. Whereas the Dodgers traded him to the Blue Jays lengthy earlier than they beat the Yankees within the World Collection, Yarbrough nonetheless earned a prize that none of his present teammates obtained.
On Sunday, nonetheless, Yarbrough gifted the Yankees a win, shoving towards his former group in a 7-3 victory. The win staved off a Dodgers sweep within the two groups’ first collection matchup since final 12 months’s Fall Traditional.
Yarbrough, persevering with to profit from his funky supply and junk-ball arsenal, cruised for six innings. The one run he allowed got here on a Tommy Edman homer within the second.
The swingman, who has permitted simply six runs in his 5 begins with the Yankees, additionally tallied 4 hits, zero walks and 5 strikeouts over 93 pitches towards baseball’s highest-scoring offense.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, then again, had no really feel for his splitter and lacked command on Sunday. That mixture had the Japanese ace, top-of-the-line pitchers within the sport this season, out of the sport after 3.2 innings. He totaled seven hits, 4 earned runs, three walks, two strikeouts and 96 pitches.
Yamamoto had dominated the Yankees in two earlier profession begins towards them, together with Sport 2 of the World Collection, however he appeared off his sport from the get-go.
The primary inning noticed Trent Grisham single and rating on a two-out knock from Jasson Domínguez as Andy Pages airmailed a throw over residence plate. Ben Rice then smoked a two-run homer to straightaway middle within the third. A wild pitch scored Anthony Volpe earlier than the inning ended.
With Yamamoto out of the sport, ex-Yankee Lou Trivino then surrendered RBI singles to DJ LeMahieu and Oswald Peraza within the fifth to make it a 6-1 sport.
Pages and Max Muncy chipped away on the Yankees’ lead with solo homers off Jonathan Loáisiga within the seventh, however LeMahieu added an RBI double – his fourth hit of the day – within the ninth. The Dodgers, in the meantime, couldn’t full their comeback bid towards Devin Williams and Tim Hill within the last innings.
The Yankees’ win wasn’t with out difficulty, as they misplaced Domínguez mid-game. The outfielder exited with a left thumb contusion shortly after stealing second within the fifth inning.
With Domínguez banged up and a highly-anticipated collection salvaged after some painful losses – the Yankees haven’t been swept all 12 months – the Bombers will fly throughout the nation and luxuriate in an off day on Monday. They’ll then start a homestand with Cleveland earlier than taking part in Boston for the primary time this season.
Carlos Rodón, Clarke Schmidt and Max Fried are lined up for the Guardians collection. Tanner Bibee, Luis Ortiz and Slade Cecconi are scheduled to pitch for Cleveland.
