No one expected this. Somehow there was speculation about the depth of the Dodgers, the quality of a man like Shohei Ohtani, along with luxury lieutenants like Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts, but that New York fell in the first three games of the World Series, no forecast contemplated it.
And yet, that’s how bad things go for the Yankees who on Monday night failed in their attempt to break the Dodgers’s yoke and ceded by a 4-2 scorer in the third game of the October Classic to stand for a championship victory.
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After ceding two meetings in California where they had the opportunity to get out angry, on this occasion the game bowed to one side due to angels who take advantage of everything that falls by hand and some Manhattan Mulos who have lost their way in every decision they make, from the use of the pitchers to the run of the bases.
Those led by Aaron Boone did the interesting things again in the ninth when Alex Verdugo hit a home run with a man in circulation, but again the threat didn’t go beyond that and everything points to the fate of this series being thrown out.
In order not to lose the habit, Freeman pulled a ball out of the park, but this game bore the mark of Walker Buehler, who was transported to his most dominant form, such as that of that pitcher who for several postseasons had left an average of clean runs of 2.95, before falling victim to several injuries that questioned his career.
The Dodgers trusted Buehler even though his two starts in these playoffs have been very contrasting between the one who threw four immaculate innings against the Mets and the one that allowed six runs against the Padres in San Diego.
On this occasion, however, Buehler was all manager Dave Roberts expected, and much more, to work six innings of near-absolute dominance over some Yankees who appear to sink more and more in the face of the days.
Suffice it to say the first unstoppable one didn’t connect until the fourth inning when Giancarlo Stanton crashed a bat against the left garden fence to comfortably get to second and sign the Bronx Bombers’s first real threat in the match.
But even what seemed like a good time for the locals completely when Stanton – an extremely slow runner – was put out on the rubber as he tried to score with another unstoppable from second with a perfect shot from Teoscar Hernandez.
The Yankees, meanwhile, gave the ball to Clarke Schmidt, but that couldn’t do the job by going after 2.2 innings and three runs conceded with a freeman quadruple in the first that found Ohtani on the way and a simple Mookie Betts drive in the third.
After Schmidt began a parade of relievers that generally did not concede major problems until Kike Hernandez towed the fourth of the visitors in the sixth putting a sign of concern in the thousands of fans at Yankee Stadium.
New York sweated the few chances to make runs, while its main star, Aaron Judge, continued his weakened pass through the postseason, especially in a World Series in which he has connected a lone hit and accumulated seven pitches.
They say hope is the last thing to get lost, but the way the Yankees show themselves, makes you believe that a recovery across the line is in order.
The end is coming cruelly in the Bronx, but on the other coast, they have already enlisted in the celebration.
