Yankees use small ball to take sequence in LA

LOS ANGELES — The Yankees often rating most of their runs by hitting the ball over the wall, however in a taut pitchers’ duel at Chavez Ravine, a few well-placed grounders did the trick.

Kyle Higashioka and Oswaldo Cabrera pushed throughout runs with groundouts earlier than Anthony Volpe busted the sport open with a two-run homer, serving to the Yankees defeat the Dodgers, 4-1, on Sunday night at Dodger Stadium to assert the sequence.

The small-ball show, and Volpe’s ninth-inning blast, got here after Domingo Germán stored the Dodgers guessing into the seventh inning, stifling the highly effective offense by leaning on his curveball and changeup in a 99-pitch effort.

Germán restricted Los Angeles to 4 hits, strolling one and placing out six. He exited with the sport tied after hanging an 0-2 curveball that J.D. Martinez slugged into the left-field bleachers.

New York managed little towards rookie right-hander Bobby Miller, who held the Yankees scoreless by means of six innings.

The first run of the sport got here throughout within the seventh as Jake Bauers grounded a one-out single and Isiah Kiner-Falefa dropped a bunt that pitcher Brusdar Graterol fired errantly into proper subject. Higashioka knocked in Bauers with a groundout to shortstop.

In the eighth, Anthony Rizzo labored a one-out stroll and superior to 3rd on Giancarlo Stanton’s booming double to left-center subject earlier than Cabrera picked up an RBI with a dribbler to second base.