Dodgers exposing all the Yankees’ shortcomings

LOS ANGELES — This was not a hangover. Being incapable to shingle nan dramatic, traumatic consequence of Game 1 would person really been amended for nan Yankees. Provided them an excuse. 

So this was worse. This was nan Yankees going down two-nothing successful nan World Series and looking for overmuch of Game 2 arsenic if they didn’t beryllium connected nan aforesaid section arsenic nan Dodgers. 

If Game 1 was a classic, Game 2 was a people — pinch nan Dodgers schooling nan Yankees. 

So what do nan precocious innings mean? Because Shohei Ohtani had to beryllium assisted disconnected nan section successful nan seventh inning pinch an evident limb wounded suffered aft attempting to bargain second. And aft being held to 1 deed and 1 tally for 8 innings, nan Yanks scored erstwhile and had 2 swings pinch nan bases loaded earlier succumbing, 4-2. 

That near nan wide very bad for nan Yankees. 

Remember that starting pitching advantage nan Yankees were expected to person successful this matchup? Through 2 games: nope. 

The expertise to spell homer for homer pinch nan Dodgers? Not quite. 

The Yankees are losing, stars vs. stars — particularly because their biggest star, Aaron Judge, is lost. Long lineup vs. agelong lineup is one-sided done 2 games. 

The Dodgers hit nan Yankees to Yoshinobu Yamamoto successful nan offseason and to Tommy Edman and Jack Flaherty astatine nan waste and acquisition deadline — each advantage Dodgers. 

Managing? Aaron Boone’s determination to not person Tim Hill spell aft Freddie Freeman successful nan 10th inning of Game 1 only looked worse erstwhile Hill sewage Freeman to popular to short arsenic portion of his four-up, four-down outing. Boone went pinch Nestor Cortes, who surrendered nan walk-off expansive slam to Freeman successful a 6-3 gut punch to nan Yankees. 

But arsenic acold arsenic carryover, this crippled was 1-1 done 2 ¹/₂ innings pinch Edman and Juan Soto exchanging homers. In theory, nan crippled was stabilized. The Yankees were not reeling from being 1 retired distant from snaring Game 1. 

Here is nan thing, though: that homer was nan only deed nan Yankees managed successful Yamamoto’s 6 ¹/₃ innings. 

In nan bottommost of nan third, nan Dodgers would timepiece 2 much homers disconnected of Rodon — a two-run changeable by Teoscar Hernandez and Freeman pursuing pinch a homer successful his 4th consecutive World Series crippled (the first 2 pinch nan 2021 champion Braves). The homers by Edman (a wrecking shot against lefty pitching) and Hernandez expressed what a grinding, lengthy lineup nan Dodgers person — and that nan Yankees are not matching. 

Want immoderate solace, Yankee fans? 

It comes pinch nan Dodgers and perchance nan full bid suffering a gut punch. Ohtani was thrown retired trying to bargain 2nd successful nan seventh. He jammed his near manus into nan crushed hard, laid successful symptom initially and was walked disconnected nan section pinch a trainer holding nan limb successful place. There was nary contiguous revelation arsenic to nan grade of nan injury, but obviously, if nan presumptive NL MVP misses immoderate time, it would beryllium substantial. 

There besides is this — nan past clip a squad rebounded from an 0-2 Fall Classic spread were nan 1996 Yankees — and those 2 Brave victories were acold much ascendant than this, done successful The Bronx and by a defending champion seemingly astatine its afloat prime-age greatness. What we didn’t cognize yet was that nan Yankees roster was filled pinch dynastic players that could grip that benignant of challenge. 

Follow The Post’s sum of nan Yankees successful nan postseason:

• Yankees pitcher was group up to neglect successful untimely decision
• Heyman: It’s clip for Yankees to make drastic Aaron Judge move
• Sherman: The Yankees aren’t successful Kansas City anymore
• The 2 sides of Juan Soto showed up successful Game 1

The Dodgers person 3 erstwhile times taken a two-nothing World Series lead connected nan Yankees. They swept successful 1963. But successful 1956 and 1978, nan Yanks mislaid nan first 2 connected nan roadworthy earlier rallying to triumph titles. Those, though, were championship-proven rosters. 

Who are these Yankees? Are they reliable capable and bully capable to now triumph 4 of 5 games against a squad arsenic heavy arsenic these Dodgers? 

Because these Yankees are not a afloat rounded team. As they showed successful losing Game 1, they tin beryllium messy technically connected nan bases and successful nan field. They played a cleaner crippled connected Saturday. But successful either version, nan Yankees fig retired really to triumph by hitting homers. And they mislaid that successful meaning successful Game 1 — Freeman’s expansive slam was acold much captious than Giancarlo Stanton’s two-run changeable — and successful full (3 to 1) successful Game 2. 

And nan Yankees request nan mightiness from Judge. But for nan ninth clip successful their 11 postseason games, Judge came up pinch a runner connected guidelines successful nan first inning — for nan sixth clip pinch runners successful scoring position — and fell to 0-for-8 pinch six strikeouts erstwhile Yamamoto whiffed him. Judge keeps missing chances to power games from nan outset — and really each crippled — and that is devastating nan Yankees. 

We hold to perceive if Ohtani is mislaid and spot if Judge tin beryllium recovered arsenic nan World Series now moves to The Bronx.