For about the worst display of defense I have seen in the World series.
Soto in right field chasing a ball around the corner as who, Kike gpes for a triple? Embarrassing.
Alex Verdugo falling on his butt as a lame Freddie Freeman lumbers around the bases for another triple and Alex tops this off by dropping the stationary ball when he goes to pick it up and throws it in.
Ohtanis drills a ball off the wall, Soto plays way too close and ends up catching the ball in his cup. Can't get it out (insert you joke here), takes forever to throw it in. Yankees have no cut and no back up on the throw . Ball gets loose and just lies there on the infield grass Shohei takes 3 where LA ties the game. Huge because either Soto throws poorly, Torres at 2B doesn't control it and Rizzo or the SS either one Volpe don't back up and at the MLB level in the world series a 6'4 210 man standing on 2B runs to 3B. If I am a Yankee I am livid But wait it gets better.
That set up the Sac fly from Mookie to tie the game.
Yankees have a double play ball that can end the game. Cabrera blows the play. Doesn't come up with anything. Everyone safe. Meaning Ohtani comes up with men in scoring position. I am extremely surprised that was ruled a hit. Was a terrible play especially for a defensive sub.
Anyway, when You have a 6'7 287 lb Moose playing CF you are not a good defensive OF and from what I see not an especially great defensive infield either
So yay for them keeping LA in the game and finally giving Freddie a chance to make history
I agree, there was some shoddy fielding. But there were also some Yankee gems also: -Jizzim made that great play on Mookies smash at 3rd base that with a runner standing on 3rd.
-Verdugo made a decent charging catch of a sinking liner in left field,
-Verdugo catch in foul territory that carried him into the stands pretty damn good also Dodger gems: -Edman made a couple of great snags deep into the hole and either got the out or prevented a run from scoring by stopping the ball going into the outfield.
-Muncy made a great, do-or-die snag of that infield chopper. Prevented what could have been a big inning.
The key was the Dodgers placement of their infield. There were hard grounders that looked like sure base hits only to have a Dodger infielder plugging the hole and turning it into an out. One was an Edman double play. I felt the starting pitchers were pulled a little early, particularly Cole. Dodgers hitters have to stop trying to hit a homerun every at bat.