Cup of Coffee: October 27, 2024

And That Happened

Dodgers 4, Yankees 2: The good news for the Dodgers: they beat up Carlos Rodón, with Tommy Edman, Teoscar Hernández, and Freddie Freeman hitting homers off of him. Also good: Yoshinobu Yammamoto pitching into the seventh and allowing just one hit, in the form of a Juan Soto solo homer.

The bad news for the Dodgers: Shohei Ohtani got caught stealing to end the seventh inning and remained on the ground in obvious pain. In real time it looked like he injured his left wrist, but in the next half inning it was reported that it was a shoulder injury. After the game Dave Roberts said Ohtani had “a little left shoulder subluxation." A sublaxation is a dislocation and I’m not sure what about that makes “a little” an appropriate qualifier, but that’s what he said. He also said that they have to do more tests today to see how severe things are, including an MRI, but it wouldn’t be shocking if we’ve seen the last of Ohtani until next spring.

The Yankees looked pretty pathetic at the plate for the first eight innings, with few if any of their at bats being even remotely competitive. Aaron Judge looks completely lost. The ninth inning was certainly fun, with the Yankees picking up a run and loading the bases with one out before Blake Treinen and Alex Vesia wriggled out of it, but it would’ve been a better idea for the New York lineup to show up before that.

Today is an off-day and things now shift to New York for tomorrow night’s Game 3. It’s not unheard of for a team to turn things around after being down 0-2. It’s happened ten times in the World Series, including the Yankees themselves doing it four times: 1996, 1978, 1958, and 1956. Two of those came against the Dodgers. And the last time these two teams met in the Fall Classic, 1981, the Yankees won the first two and the Dodgers won the final four.

But those Bomber bats need to wake up quick or this thing ain’t coming back to L.A.