Dodgers studied Yankees' defensive, baserunning shortcomings that led to crushing World Series defeat: report

The apical of the 5th inning Wednesday nighttime was an implicit nightmare for the New York Yankees.

In an alternate universe, the Yankees person a 3-2 pb implicit the Los Angeles Dodgers successful Game 6 of the World Series Friday.

However, the Yankees had 1 of the worst antiaircraft innings of each clip successful Game 5, conscionable a fewer days aft immoderate miscues successful Game 1. 

Both games were Dodger victories.

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New York Yankees outfielder Juan Soto, right, reacts with outfielder Aaron Judge aft Judge dropped a alert shot during the 5th inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers during Game 5 of the 2024 World Series astatine Yankee Stadium.  (James Lang/Imagn Images)

On Wednesday night, the Yankees were connected their mode to becoming the archetypal squad to unit a Game 6 successful the Fall Classic aft trailing 3-0 successful the bid and getting retired to a 5-0 lead. Then, the entity fell.

In the 5th inning, Aaron Judge dropped a regular alert shot to enactment runners connected archetypal and 2nd and nary outs. Then, Jazz Chisholm couldn’t grip a abbreviated propulsion astatine third, which loaded the bases. Gerrit Cole got 2 large outs, but connected what should person been the third, helium didn’t screen archetypal base, which kept the inning going. 

The Dodgers saw an accidental and pounced. Freddie Freeman and Teoscar Hernandez each drove successful 2 runs to tie the crippled astatine five. 

None of this was by mishap wherever the Dodgers were concerned.

New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge makes a fielding mistake during the 5th inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers successful Game 5 of the 2024 World Series astatine Yankee Stadium.  (Vincent Carchietta/Imagn Images)

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The New York Post reports the Dodgers had emphasized successful squad meetings that the Yankees were a "talent implicit fundamentals" team.

"That if you tally the bases with intent and aggression, the Yankees volition self-inflict harm. … That the worth was precise precocious to enactment the shot successful play to marque the Yankees execute," the Post reported, noting the Yankees were MLB's worst baserunning squad "by each metric."

"They were thrilled astatine however abbreviated Yankee leads were astatine archetypal basal to perchance beryllium little of a menace connected pivots astatine second, wherever Gavin Lux does not excel," the Post added.

It besides reported the Yankees' outfield was poorly positioned. Alex Verdugo and Juan Soto whitethorn beryllium Gold Glove finalists this year, but the oculus trial volition archer you Soto is simply a liability successful close field. (The Yankees similar him successful close implicit left.) And Judge's skills successful halfway tract bash not travel adjacent to what helium tin bash successful his mean close tract position.

The Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani is tagged retired by New York Yankees 2nd baseman Gleyber Torres connected a bargain effort during the seventh inning successful Game 2 of the World Series Oct. 26, 2024, successful Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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The Dodgers besides took announcement that infielders were retired of presumption connected balls deed to the outfield. That was the lawsuit erstwhile Shohei Ohtani reached 3rd connected a treble aft a shot got distant from Gleyber Torres and nary 1 was astir to prime it up.

The Yankees outslugged their mediocre fundamentals from April done September. They were adjacent capable to bash truthful against the Royals and Guardians successful the ALDS and ALCS, but elite teams intelligibly instrumentality enactment and instrumentality advantage.

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