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Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> (61-36, first in the NL West) vs. New York Yankees<\/a> (54-42, second in the AL East)<\/p>\n

New York; Friday, 7:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Dodgers: Roki Sasaki<\/a> (3-5, 5.33 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 80 strikeouts); Yankees: Gerrit Cole<\/a> (3-4, 4.04 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 47 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Dodgers -118, Yankees -104; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Yankees open a three-game series at home against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday.<\/p>\n

New York has a 54-42 record overall and a 23-20 record in home games. The Yankees have the seventh-ranked team on-base percentage in the AL at .317.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles is 30-17 on the road and 61-36 overall. Dodgers pitchers have a collective 3.56 ERA, which ranks second in the NL.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the first meeting this season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ben Rice<\/a> has a .279 batting average to lead the Yankees, and has 15 doubles, three triples and 29 home runs. Jasson Dominguez<\/a> is 11 for 38 with two home runs and two RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Shohei Ohtani<\/a> leads the Dodgers with a .293 batting average, and has 16 doubles, two triples, 22 home runs, 60 walks and 58 RBIs. Kyle Tucker<\/a> is 10 for 35 with three RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Yankees: 6-4, .248 batting average, 3.48 ERA, outscored opponents by four runs<\/p>\n

Dodgers: 5-5, .235 batting average, 4.21 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Yankees: Max Fried: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Rodon<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Giancarlo Stanton<\/a>: 10-Day IL (leg), Aaron Judge: 10-Day IL (rib), Clarke Schmidt<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Dodgers: Gavin Stone<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Bobby Miller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Blake Treinen<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Will Smith: 10-Day IL (neck), Ben Casparius<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Tyler Glasnow: 60-Day IL (back), Brusdar Graterol: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Blake Snell<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kike Hernandez: 10-Day IL (oblique), Edwin Diaz<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jake Cousins<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Dodgers (61-36, first in the NL West) vs. New York Yankees (54-42, second in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,1134,731,114,1692,1522,2004,1216,1087,75686,1523,2281,310,2283,3289,29,57,19,4,1690,62,2548,2547,110,468,142],"class_list":["post-754019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-yankees","tag-baseball","tag-ben-casparius","tag-ben-rice","tag-blake-snell","tag-blake-treinen","tag-bobby-miller","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-clarke-schmidt","tag-edwin-diaz","tag-event_preview","tag-gavin-stone","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-jake-cousins","tag-jasson-dominguez","tag-kyle-tucker","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkyankees","tag-roki-sasaki","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116934373771613080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754019","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=754019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}