The Yankees returned to New York with the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers under 0-2 and are now looking for a respite that allows them to have a choice to win the major league title, for which they need the improvement of their captain Aaron Judge.
In Los Angeles, the Dodgers celebrated by conquering the first two games with an offensive led by Freddie Freeman, who responded with two home runs and six towed, while his pitching was fulfilled by limiting the Yankees attack to only five runs in the first two games of the series.
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In the first two games, New York’s batting just 14-2 (.142) with runners in scoring position, reflecting the offensive inefficiency of the batters of the team led by Aaron Boone, mainly of his stellar toletero and third bat, Aaron Judge.
Dominican Juan Soto has fired three unstoppable in seven turns at the bat, achieving among them a fly, in addition, he has taken two bases by balls and counts three scores and one pushed, while Giancarlo Stanton records a home run and three towings, surrounding Judge in the lineup, who has not been able to serve as a complement to hurt the Dodgers.
Judge has just an unstoppable nine visits to the bat in the World Series, cutting each of the chances he had come up with taking teammates to the plate, as happened in Saturday’s game when Soto started the ninth inning with an unstoppable right garden, but Judge ended up being punched.
Judge’s punch ended up fatal for the Yankees, who put runners on all three pads with an out in that ninth chapter, carried the reverse.
Judge has been a disaster in the post-sea, failing in each of the eight shifts he has exhausted with runners in a scoring position, which has caused an obvious deficit in the number of runs that the New York team has scored and it is something that the Judge must improve as soon as possible.
“I just have to start batting,” said the captain after the second game of the World Series, in which he added six punches in his nine appearances to the plate.
In the Championship Series Judge hit a home run and towed four of his six towings at Yankee Stadium, where the team bets that he could be the man who sent more than 50 balls on the fence in the regular series, and that keeps him as the main option for the American League’s Most Valuable Player award.
Although the pick should continue to improve, the reality is that the Yankees, in both matches, kept the margin of difference in three runs or less, which is laudable in the face of a powerful lineup like that of the Dodgers, who on Friday won by a Grand Slam by Freeman in the tenth inning.
A day later, the New York relay did not allow annotations, after Carlos Rodon left the mound, after allowing four runs in 3.1 innings.
Playing at Yankee Stadium in this postseason, the Yankees have a 3-1 mark and while improving is an obligation on both sides of the game, they undoubtedly need the home run-in of the season to get chances of winning the World Series again.
