Yankees' last-gasp comeback versus Dodgers falls short in World Series as hosts take 2-0 lead despite Shohei Ohtani injury

The Dodgers held disconnected a precocious Yankees comeback effort connected Saturday successful Game 2 of the World Series - but saw their prima antheral Shohei Ohtani get injured successful the process.

LA won 4-2 to instrumentality a 2-0 bid pb pursuing a nervy last inning which saw the visitors load the bases.

Alex Vesia was capable to decorativeness disconnected the crippled aft Blake Treinen allowed a Giancarlo Stanton RBI and deed Anthony Rizzo with a pitch, but the greater interest present volition beryllium Ohtani's wellness aft the Japanese superstar suffered a enarthrosis injury.

Ohtani near the crippled successful the bottommost of the seventh inning aft attempting to bargain 2nd basal and getting tagged out.

He walked disconnected with the assistance of a trainer and grimaced successful symptom arsenic helium near the field. 

It remains to beryllium seen whether oregon not he'll beryllium disposable for Game 3, which volition beryllium connected Monday successful New York.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts called the wounded a near shoulder subluxation, which is simply a partial dislocation.

LA scored each 4 of their runs disconnected of homers, arsenic Tommy Edman, Teoscar Hernandez and Freddie Freeman each went deep.

New York, earlier their precocious push, were kept quiescent by Yoshinobu Yamamoto speech from Juan Soto hitting a game-tying solo location tally successful the apical of the 3rd inning.

Yamamoto allowed conscionable 1 deed implicit 6 1/3 innings, and retired his past 11 batters and 15 of his last 16 aft Soto's location run.

Soto besides singled successful the ninth and scored connected Stanton's one-out deed disconnected the third-base bag. Jazz Chisholm Jr. singled and Rizzo was past deed by a pitch, loading the bases. Treinen past struck retired Anthony Volpe earlier Vesia relieved.

Forty-five of 56 teams holding 2-0 World Series leads person gone connected to triumph the title.

New York´s Aaron Judge went 0 for 4 with 3 strikeouts and is hitting .150 with six RBIs and 19 strikeouts successful 40 postseason at-bats.

Freeman, meanwhile, has homered successful 4 consecutive Series games dating to Atlanta´s past 2 games against Houston successful 2021. That is 1 shy of the grounds held by the Astros´ George Springer.

All 3 Dodgers homers came connected fastballs from Yankees starter Carlos Rodón, whose 31 longballs allowed during the regular play tied for second-most successful the large leagues.

Los Angeles had back-to-back Series homers for conscionable the 2nd time, aft Pedro Guerrero and Steve Yeager connected against Yankees lefty Ron Guidry for a 2-1 triumph successful Game 5 successful 1981.

Rodón allowed 4 runs and six hits successful 3 1/3 innings.

Los Angeles took a 2-0 Series pb for the archetypal clip since 1988, erstwhile Kirk Gibson´s walk-off homer against Oakland´s Dennis Eckersley won the opener and Orel Hershiser followed with a three-hit shutout. 

The Yankees are 0-2 for the archetypal clip since 2001, erstwhile they rebounded to triumph 3 consecutive astatine location and mislaid Games 6 and 7 astatine Arizona.