With their victory over the New York Yankees in Game 2 of the World Series, the Dodgers have shown they’re not even as good as the Mets and Padres.
It won’t be long now.
Ice Cube won the night before the first pitch. Blue-cloaked fans shook the Ravine until the last pitch. And through it all, Aaron Judge kept swinging, and missing, and missing, and missing, and manufacturing enough humiliation to lead to a single conclusion.
It won’t be long now.
The New York Yankees are not in the same class as the Dodgers, and this expectedly taut World Series between two baseball Goliaths feels more like the starting five against the junior varsity.
It will be over soon.
The Dodgers’ 4-2 victory Saturday in Game 2 gave them a two-games-to-none lead and set them up to clinch their eighth World Series title in the Bronx before the end of the week.
This space correctly provided a similar prediction during the National League Championship Series with the New York Mets, and this time the sense is even stronger.
The feeling is strong enough, in fact, to account for any injury to Shohei Ohtani, who hurt his left shoulder sliding into second base on an unsuccessful steal attempt in the seventh inning.
After the tag, Ohtani lay for a long minute on the dirt around the base, clearly in pain, waiting for Dodger officials to help him to his feet and off the field.
It didn’t look pretty. But the facts are that the Dodgers can beat the Yankees without him, as he is one for eight in the series with one extra-base hit and no RBIs.
The feeling is also strong enough to account for a late Yankees rally Saturday, as they scored a run off reliever Blake Treinen in the ninth and loaded the bases with one out, but Treinen struck out Anthony Volpe and Alex Vesia retired pinch-hitter Jose Trevino on a first-pitch flyout to end the game.
