Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly rips Yankees, says World Series was 'complete mismatch'

Late past month, the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrated the franchise's eighth World Series title.

A 7-6 triumph successful Game 5 of the bid eliminated the American League champion New York Yankees. The Dodgers won an instant classical Game 1, with Freddie Freeman hitting a walk-off expansive slam successful the 10th inning.

Los Angeles won the adjacent 2 games and was connected the cusp of clinching the championship. 

The Yankees managed to triumph Game 4, but immoderate fifth-inning blunders successful Game 5 proved to beryllium much than New York could overcome. California autochthonal and Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly has not shied distant from offering his unfiltered takes connected wherefore the Dodgers knocked disconnected the Yankees.

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Los Angeles Dodgers alleviation pitcher Joe Kelly delivers a transportation against the Miami Marlins during the sixth inning astatine loanDepot Park successful Miami, Fla., Sept. 18, 2024. (Sam Navarro/Imagn Images)

During the latest variation of the "Baseball Isn't Boring" podcast, Kelly piled connected the Yankees by suggesting they should person been a little effect successful the playoffs.

"We had seen it each azygous game. Just fto them propulsion the shot to the infield. They can’t marque a play," Kelly said. "It was a mismatch from the get-go. If we had a playoff re-ranking, they mightiness beryllium ranked the eighth- oregon ninth-best playoff team.

"You’re putting the Padres up of them. You’re putting the Phillies up of them. You’re putting the Mets up of them. You’re putting the Braves up of them, and the Braves conscionable got unlucky due to the fact that they had to play that doubleheader."

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Although the Yankees needed conscionable 5 games to destruct the Guardians successful the ALCS, Kelly believes Cleveland played "better shot each around."

"I mean, the Guardians played similar crap, but the Guardians played amended [defense] and amended shot each around," Kelly said earlier again characterizing the Dodgers' matchup with the Yankees a "complete mismatch."

Los Angeles Dodgers alleviation pitcher Joe Kelly delivers a transportation against the Miami Marlins during the sixth inning astatine loanDepot Park successful Miami, Fla., Sept. 18, 2024.  (Sam Navarro/Imagn Images)

Aaron Judge and Anthony Volpe each committed errors successful the disastrous 5th inning of Game 5. Pitcher Gerrit Cole added to the issues erstwhile helium did not screen archetypal base, which helped the Dodgers people 5 runs successful the inning.

Joe Kelly (99) and Teoscar Hernández (37) of the Los Angeles Dodgers observe aft their 7-6 triumph successful Game 5 to triumph the 2024 World Series against the New York Yankees astatine Yankee Stadium Oct. 30, 2024, successful New York, N.Y. (Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

New York's antiaircraft woes surfaced good earlier Game 5. In the bid opener, Yankees infielder Gleyber Torres misplayed a relay propulsion that allowed Shohei Ohtani to marque it to 3rd base. The Dodgers' prima designated hitter yet made it safely to location sheet to necktie the game.

"Shohei got an other basal going to 3rd connected a sloppy Gleyber [Torres] play. It's good known, we each knew. … We're the Dodgers. … We cognize each small detail."

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The Yankees participate the postseason with a unreality of uncertainty hanging implicit Juan Soto. The prima outfielder deed a career-high 41 location runs successful 2024. However, a bidding warfare is expected this offseason arsenic teams effort to motion Soto.

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