Yoshinobu Yamamoto did not need much help for most of the night. Then, in the eighth inning, the Dodgers gave him plenty anyway. Los Angeles turned a workable lead into an 8-2 rout of the Yankees, powered by a five-run eighth that buried any hope of a late Bronx comeback.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAD | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 0 |
| NYY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
Yamamoto was the story before the eighth-inning burst ever happened. He worked the full nine innings, allowing 4 hits and 2 runs (2 earned) with 7 strikeouts and no walks across 102 pitches, improving to 10-6 with a 2.78 ERA. He scattered enough contact to keep New York within reach for a while, but he never let the Yankees closer than the two runs Trent Grisham drove in with his fourth-inning homer.
Los Angeles broke the game open in the third when Shohei Ohtani doubled to right to score Edman for a 1-0 lead, then Freddie Freeman singled home Ohtani to make it 2-0. Andy Pages added a run-scoring double in the fifth to score Edman again. The decisive stretch came in the eighth, when the Dodgers sent a string of hitters to the plate: T. Hernández's ground-rule double scored Muncy, Edman's single brought home T. Hernández and Tucker, Ohtani's single drove in Rushing, and Freeman's sacrifice fly plated Edman, turning a 3-1 game into an 8-1 laugher in a single inning.
New York starter Cam Schlittler struck out 8 over 4.1 innings but was charged with 3 runs (3 earned) on 6 hits and took the loss, falling to 9-6. The Yankees' bullpen worked 4.2 innings and allowed 5 runs. Grisham's homer and RBI single from Anthony Volpe, which scored Jazz Chisholm in the eighth, accounted for New York's only offense of note.
The result dropped the Yankees to 54-44, a second straight loss, while the Dodgers improved to 63-36 and extended their winning streak to two, holding onto first place in their division.