The Yankees mightiness request a 2nd bulletin committee for each nan worldly nan Dodgers are giving them.
Shortstop Miguel Rojas, appearing connected “Chris Rose Sports” podcast, joined a increasing database of Dodgers to corroborate reporting from The Post’s Joel Sherman: The Yankees deficiency discipline, they don’t execute nan specifications and they hit themselves nether pressure.
“Their weakness was nan measurement they make outs connected nan bases, nan measurement they didn’t return attraction of nan baseball, [their] lazy defense,” Rojas told Rose connected Wednesday.
His comments came conscionable days aft Dodgers reliever Joe Kelly said virtually nan aforesaid thing connected his “Baseball Isn’t Boring” podcast: “We had seen it [in] each azygous game— conscionable fto them propulsion nan shot to nan infield, they can’t make a play.”
As Rojas put it successful his speech pinch Rose, “We knew we were good, [we conscionable had] to put unit connected them truthful they [would] make those small mistakes.”
And his Dodgers did conscionable that.
They put nan shot successful play. They ran difficult astir nan bases. They made nan regular look routine.
All nan small things added up to a five-game World Series triumph and nan franchise’s eighth World Series.
In preparing for their Fall Classic showdown against nan Yankees, Rojas said Los Angeles looked backmost towards their divisional information matchup versus nan San Diego Padres.
“We faced nan hungriest team, [the Padres], early successful nan playoffs— that was nan champion squad successful shot astatine nan time. And nan measurement that those guys ran nan bases, nan measurement they put unit connected nan defense, it prepared america [for facing nan Yankees],” Rojas said.
For each his bluster, Rojas appeared successful conscionable 1 World Series crippled — or 1 much than Kelly — going 0-for-3 successful LA’s 4-2 Game 2 win.
“We knew [the Yankees] were a bully squad and [that] they were playing basking baseball— swinging nan bat [well]. But [in position of] nan fundamentals of nan game, we [knew we] could beryllium better, and that was nan quality successful that series.”
As glaring arsenic that quality was and arsenic listless arsenic nan Yankees appeared passim overmuch of nan series, Yankees wide head Brian Cashman has maintained nan squad is connected nan cusp and were a bully squad that “just played poorly successful that series.”