NEW YORK — Teoscar Hernández broke a scoreless game with a two-run double in the 11th inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Yankees 2-1 on Friday night to snap New York’s season-best eight-game winning streak.
In a matchup seen as a possible World Series preview, Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched seven scoreless innings of three-hit ball in his Yankee Stadium debut. Anthony Banda, Blake Treinen, Daniel Hudson, Michael Grove (4-2) and Yohan Ramírez finished off a five-hit effort for the Dodgers.
Ramírez, playing for his third big league team this season, picked up his first save in two years after allowing an RBI single to Aaron Judge. Ramírez threw a third strike against Giancarlo Stanton and retired Anthony Rizzo on a foul hit, dropping New York to 1-4 in extra innings this year.
Juan Soto, bothered by a sore left forearm, missed his first game of the season for the Yankees, although he appeared ready to homer in the bottom of the inning.
Shohei Ohtani went 0 for 5 and was repeatedly booed. Battling back and hamstring issues, Ohtani is hitting .195 with three home runs and 10 RBIs since May 16, dropping his season average from .364 to .312.
In a night referee, Todd Tichenor frustrated both teams with a tight attacking zone, the game was scoreless until the 11th.
Ian Hamilton (0-1), the Yankees’ sixth pitcher, retired Ohtani on an inning-ending grounder with two scored in the 10th. With Ohtani at second as an automatic runner in the 11th, Hamilton walked Freddie Freeman and retired Will Smith on a flyout before Hernández hit an 0-2 slider to the left-center gap.
Hernández also made a leaping catch against the left field wall, with Volpe starting first.
Los Angeles has not played in the Bronx since 2016.
“Hopefully we can do this again at the end of October,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “It has to be and it has to look different when you walk into this stadium and this franchise plays. When you’re playing for the Dodgers and the Yankees, it better be different. You would be good. If not, you better do something different for a profession.”
A season-high crowd of 48,048 filled Yankee Stadium, New York’s fourth sellout this year.
“This is one of those regular-season series that will have that extra oomph,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.
A heralded 25-year-old right-hander, Yamamoto spurned the Yankees during the offseason to sign a 12-year, $325 million contract with the Dodgers. He allowed two hits and two walk innings with seven strikeouts, throwing a season-high 106 pitches. He threw 20 pitches faster than 97.2 mph, which was his maximum in his first twelve starts, peaking at 98.4 mph.
He struck out Jose Trevino to strand runners on the corners in the second, starting a 12-game strikeout streak before a two-out walk to Judge in the sixth. Yamamoto then fanned Stanton with a fastball at the top of the strike zone.
Also making his Yankee Stadium debut, New York’s Cody Poteet allowed two hits and three walks in 4 2/3 scoreless innings.
New York loaded the bases in the eighth when Judge drew a 10-pitch walk against Treinen, who retired Stanton on a flyout.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: LHP Clayton Kershaw (shoulder surgery last Nov. 3) threw two innings in a simulated game Friday at Rancho Cucamonga and reached 90 mph, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. The 36-year-old three-time Cy Young Award winner will throw a three-inning simulated game in five or six days. … RHP Bobby Miller (right shoulder inflammation) would make his third minor league rehab start Friday for Oklahoma City and could return to the big league team next week. … 3B Max Muncy (right oblique strain that has sidelined him since May 15) is throwing strikes without the ball. “It’s still a slow program,” Roberts said.
Yankees: RHP Gerrit Cole (right elbow nerve inflammation) will have a second rehab for Double-A Somerset on Sunday.
NEXT
LHP Nestor Cortes (3-4, 3.46 ERA) starts Saturday night for the Yankees and RHP Gavin Stone (6-2, 2.90) for the Dodgers. Cortes is 3-1 with a 1.12 ERA at home and 0-3 with a 6.17 ERA on the road.
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