Shohei Ohtani's 2 HRs lift Dodgers over Yanks in Series rematch
Carlos Correa's 10th-inning blast lifts Twins over Mariners
LOS ANGELES: Shohei Ohtani hit two home runs, including one in a four-run sixth inning, as the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied for an 8-5 victory over the visiting New York Yankees on Friday in a World Series rematch that resembled an October contest.
Freddie Freeman added an RBI double in the sixth, Andy Pages hit a game-tying single and Michael Conforto walked with the bases loaded for the go-ahead score. Pages finished with two hits and three RBIs. Freeman had three hits, while Ohtani now has five home runs in his past five games, with three of those coming as he led off the first inning. Two of them, including a blast Friday, came on the opposition's first pitch of the game.
Aaron Judge hit a first-inning home run for the Yankees, whose five-game winning streak ended. Austin Wells, Trent Grisham and Paul Goldschmidt also hit home runs for New York. Yankees starter Max Fried (7-1) permitted a season-high six earned runs on eight hits in five-plus innings while losing for the first time in 12 starts this year. He fanned three without issuing a walk.
Dodgers starter Tony Gonsolin (3-1) prevailed despite allowing five runs on six hits in six innings. He struck out four and walked three. Alex Vesia earned his second save with a scoreless ninth inning.
Ohtani hit his 21st and 22nd home run to increase his major-league-leading total, while Judge now has 19. The first-inning blasts were the first time in major league history a pair of reigning MVPs hit homers in the opening inning of the same game.
The Yankees broke the 1-1 tie in a three-run second inning when Wells hit his ninth homer of the season and Grisham added his 13th, a two-run shot. The Dodgers pulled within 4-2 in the bottom of the second on an RBI groundout from Enrique Hernandez. New York made it 5-2 in the third inning on Goldschmidt's sixth homer of the season.
Ohtani's second home run of the game came in the sixth, a towering shot that just cleared the right-field wall. Freeman, Pages and Conforto all added RBIs in an inning that looked similar to Los Angeles' five-run rally in the fifth inning of the clinching Game 5 of the World Series. The Dodgers made it 8-5 in the seventh on a two-run single from Pages. Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts was a late scratch due to a toe injury.
Twins beat Mariners
In Seattle, Carlos Correa homered leading off the 10th inning as the Minnesota Twins pulled off an improbable comeback to defeat the host Seattle Mariners 12-6 on Friday. Willi Castro hit two homers and Trevor Larnach also went deep for the Twins, who rallied from a four-run deficit.
Seattle's Cal Raleigh hit two homers to become the first catcher in major league history to hit 20 by the end of May. He ended the night with 21 on the year. Teammate Randy Arozarena also homered.
Correa hit the first pitch of the 10th from reliever Casey Legumina (4-3) over the wall in left-center field to also score automatic runner DaShawn Keirsey Jr. The Twins then loaded the bases with two outs and got a two-run single from Byron Buxton and a two-run double from Larnach to pull away. Twins closer Jhoan Duran (4-1) pitched one scoreless inning for the victory.
Minnesota scored three runs with two outs in the ninth off Mariners closer Andres Munoz to tie it at 6-6. They were the first earned runs this season allowed by Munoz, who leads the AL with 17 saves.
Former Mariner Ty France led off the ninth with a single to right. After Munoz struck out the next two batters, Castro hit a two-run shot to right to pull the Twins within 6-5. Buxton, who was making his return from the injured list (concussion), grounded a single to left, stole second and scored on Larnach's single to center to tie it.
Raleigh broke a tie with the New York Yankees' Aaron Judge for the AL lead in homers with a three-run shot, his 20th of the season, off Twins right-hander Zebby Matthews in the first. Matthews graduated from the same school as Raleigh - Smoky Mountain High in Sylva, NC. Raleigh added a two-run shot in the eighth, his 21st, off Twins reliever Cole Sands, who was his teammate at Florida State.
Seattle scored four times in the first inning. J.P. Crawford led off with an infield hit and Jorge Polanco lined a single to right. With one out, Raleigh hit a ball just inside the right field foul pole. Arozarena followed with a blast into the Twins' bullpen in left-center field.
Larnach led off the fourth with a homer to right. Ryan Jeffers followed with a double to left, took third on a flyout and scored on Brooks Lee's grounder to second as the Twins halved their deficit.
Castro went deep to right-center with two outs in the seventh to make it 4-3. Raleigh curled another homer around the right field foul pole in the eighth after Julio Rodriguez singled with two outs. Matthews settled down after the first and went seven innings. He gave up four runs on six hits with one walk and seven strikeouts. Mariners starter Bryan Woo went 6 2/3 innings and allowed three runs on six hits with one walk and three strikeouts. — Reuters
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