{"id":68305,"date":"2025-05-31T08:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T08:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/68305\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T08:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T08:23:11","slug":"yankees-repeat-world-series-history-blowing-lead-vs-dodgers-in-regular-season-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/68305\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees repeat World Series history, blowing lead vs. Dodgers in regular-season rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone who feared the New York Yankees<\/a> would repeat history \u2014 blowing a big lead against the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> like they did in the fifth inning of the 2024 World Series \u2014 could breathe easy Friday.<\/p>\n

They blew the lead in the sixth inning this time.<\/p>\n

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In their first meeting since a 2024 World Series that ended with the Dodgers raising a trophy and the Yankees swallowing instant infamy, both teams followed a similar script in an 8-5 Dodgers win<\/a>. First came the Yankees runs, then the Dodgers comeback, aided and abetted by New York’s miscues.<\/p>\n

Aaron Judge<\/a>, Austin Wells<\/a>, Trent Grisham<\/a> and Paul Goldschmidt<\/a> all hit homers off Dodgers starting pitcher Tony Gonsolin<\/a> in the first three innings, giving the Yankees a 5-2 lead despite a first-inning response from Shohei Ohtani<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Granted, it wasn’t a 5-0 lead like the one the Yankees blew in Game 5 of the 2024 Fall Classic, but the game certainly had a similar vibe as the Dodgers responded in the sixth inning. Ohtani got things started with his second homer of the game, pushing him to 22 on the season and a Dodgers record-tying 15 in May.<\/p>\n

That was the beginning of a painful inning for the Yankees, as the next four Dodgers reached base to tie the game and leave runners on the corners with no outs.<\/p>\n

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A Tommy Edman<\/a> fielder’s choice and Max Muncy<\/a> intentional walk loaded the bases with one out, setting up Michael Conforto<\/a> for some heroics.<\/p>\n

Conforto walked, giving the Dodgers a 6-5 lead and the Yankees another mistake to ponder.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers added to their lead with two more runs in the seventh inning, with Freddie Freeman<\/a> somehow sliding under a throw that beat him to home plate by several feet. Replay upheld the safe call on the field.<\/p>\n

Friday was the first game of a three-game series between the two premier franchises of MLB, with a little history together beyond the World Series. The Dodgers beat the Yankees, yes, but they and their fans also talked a not-small amount of trash about how the Yankees blew Game 5.<\/p>\n

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The Yankees took a bit of umbrage over that<\/a>, and had a great chance to respond on the field Friday. Instead, they just gave the trash-talkers more material.<\/p>\n

The win improves the Dodgers’ record to an NL West-best 35-22, while the Yankees are now 35-21, still tops in the AL East. The next game of the series is Saturday at 7:15 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anyone who feared the New York Yankees would repeat history \u2014 blowing a big lead against the Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[8506,106,1217,5,39,6920,815,1165,4332,4333,774,57,3224,4331,1532,111,4,118,468,880,725,122,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-68305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-dodgers","8":"tag-2024-world-series","9":"tag-aaron-judge","10":"tag-austin-wells","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-dodgers","13":"tag-fifth-inning","14":"tag-freddie-freeman","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-dodgers","17":"tag-ladodgers","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","20":"tag-losangeles","21":"tag-losangelesdodgers","22":"tag-max-muncy","23":"tag-michael-conforto","24":"tag-mlb","25":"tag-paul-goldschmidt","26":"tag-shohei-ohtani","27":"tag-tommy-edman","28":"tag-tony-gonsolin","29":"tag-trent-grisham","30":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114601486141439633","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}