Shohei Ohtani LEAVES game with injury in Win vs. Yankees in Game 2 of World Series | Game Recap
week, then a massive game at LS. More late game drama in game two of the World Series. Top of the third is where the Dodgers take the lead. Teoscar Hernandez get up and get out. Makes it A21 game and Carlos Rodon getting roughed up. Freddie Freeman back to back. And it is 4 to 1 Dodgers just like that a two run homer from Teoscar Hernandez. The homer from Freeman who is the hero in game one. Yoshi Yamamoto shoved. He only gave up one hit a home run to Juan Soto. He retired the final 11 batters, including Aaron Judge on the strikeout there. Then in the seventh, a major moment in this game, Shohei Ohtani caught stealing and injures his left shoulder.
He could be heard saying, I popped my shoulder out, left the game immediately. So we go to the ninth. No. Shohei Ohtani in this game. Yankees load the bases pinch hitting as Jose Trevino with two outs. First pitch swinging. Alex Vesey, a one pitch ball game. Dodgers hang on, 4 to 2. The Yankees had just one hit through eight innings and Aaron Judge one for nine with six strikeouts through two games of the World Series as the Dodgers take a two zero series lead. Yoshi Yamamoto six and a third one hit on the solo home run. He retired the last 11 batters. The Dodgers, going back to back in the bottom of the third, proves to be the difference here for the Dodgers in game two. Get some instant analysis. Our cavalcade of stars former Marlins president David Samson, former Mets manager Bobby Valentine. You are a cavalcade. We are a cavalcade and you are a star. And this is what's happening here because the biggest star in baseball goes out of this game, gets injured. The left shoulder you could be heard on the broadcast saying, I popped my shoulder out.
This is Major David. If he cannot go rest of way, how does this impact the Dodgers? Well, the Dodgers, right now, according to history, have an 80% chance of winning this World Series being up two games to zero with Ohtani out of the lineup and obviously shortens what the Dodgers have, but make no mistake, the Dodgers are deep enough to withstand an Ohtani injury to win two out of the next five games. That's really what they have to do, and that is it. I do not believe that if he popped his shoulder out, which it appears he did, that the likelihood of him coming back and being effective, I think is de minimis. Therefore, the Dodgers take tomorrow.
They figure out whether they're going to replace him on the roster and then figure out putting Betts back at leadoff. Everybody moves up in the lineup, but at the end of the day, when you get pitching like Yamamoto did today, you're going to win the World Series. You know, Dave, that's amazing because I was around this guy working with the angels for a few years. I think he's going to be in the lineup. I think the only question is going to be whether or not he flies with the team. Now, if he has the swelling, he might stay back.
But he recovers quicker than anybody I've ever seen and he's more determined than anyone I see. It's his left shoulder. He swings left handed. I think he's going to be fine and he'll be in the lineup. Just a hunch. You've popped your shoulder out before. What is that like? What is that like? And what's the timeline? Are you talking about? You know, a game, two games. What are we talking here? If you get it back in quickly before it spasms, it might be a little loose, but it'll just be a little sore.
And he has a day or two days to recover if he popped it out. And as he was walking out, it wasn't back in yet. That spasming. Is that a word that with the shoulder being spasm, it would then take a little longer to recover from the from the injury? As I remember, I did it many times. I played the same inning sometimes after it popped out, but when he walked back to the dugout looked a little clearly.
It clearly was not back in. Yeah, it looked so. He was not moving his shoulder there. Right. Therefore, it's not going to be put back in until the trainer does it. They don't want him doing it himself. And the concern is what does that mean in terms of how long do you hold him out. Keep in mind they need and want to win the World Series, but they're in year one of a ten year contract and they want him to come back next year pitching and hitting. But of course, we talk about the reason why Ohtani does things that no one's ever done. It's different. It's hard to do what he does stealing 59 bases and we have to talk about why is he even stealing up for one, I was upset before and we talked about it upstairs. But again, you can't plan for an injury like that. What if I told you doing too much was too much? You're no such thing.
You're just talking to the wrong guy. This is this is. This is. This is basically like in a football game. Quarterback. The game is in hand. I know it was only A41 lead at the time. My point is you're taking that quarterback out taking him out for the fourth quarter. Why not the same there for Ohtani. Get a pinch runner. Get him out of the game. You got a three run lead.
No you don't trust your team enough. No I'm not doing that. But I don't need to move him I don't need to have him steal second. In that case if you're down a run Bobby, I'm 100% in. If you're up a run, I'm 100% in with a three run lead. I just don't think in the seventh inning, with the way that game was going, of course there was drama in the ninth inning, but that said, it's hard to be Ohtani and to be that great at every facet of the game. And it's what you worry about as a team president or a manager. You worry about injuries every single game. Bobby, is that his call to run there? Yeah. Or does Dave say you can go ahead and go any time? I'm fine with it.
I doubt that they ever give him a stop sign that he could go on his own. Whenever he gets a jump an, you know, he's done that same slide. He's one of the few guys who slides feet first all the time. His speed is a little slower than it was earlier in the season or according to my eyes, and he looked like he got on the side a little more than he usually does on that slide, which made that arm pop that shoulder out. I think he's I, but I think he's going to be fine. Just call it a hunch. So he barely got caught stealing during the regular season. Now that's nine bags.
This was his second caught stealing of the postseason that I can recall off the top of my head. Yes. And even Ohtani. Superman is going to get tired at this time of the year. Everybody is exhausted at this time of the year, and you have to keep that in mind in terms of the green light, there were players, not many of them. Some players have the permanent green light and there's no sign of anything. When you're ready to go, you go ahead. Rickey Henderson a while and I said, Rickey, how are you with signs? He said, Rickey, don't do signs. He was always he went anytime he wanted. Rickey was always in the third person. Again, Ohtani was heard saying on the broadcast, I popped my shoulder out, left with a left shoulder injury, trying to steal second base in the seventh inning.
Another star in this game, Yoshi Yamamoto. Bobby a six and a third one run on the one, hit the solo homer to Juan Soto. What did you see out of Yamamoto here in game two? A perfection I saw him. He never threw a pitch down the middle. His fastball was up and down and on the corners and all around that frame. His breaking ball was his pitch to go for his go to pitch for strikes. And then he incorporated the split. At the end, he became an unhittable mix. So in the beginning he was not going to his splitter at all. And what we were saying is that when you can bring that in, when you're commanding the fastball, you're getting swings and misses on the breaking ball.
Then you start with the splitter. And he started getting outs on the splitter, which gave him a longer outing. And having Yamamoto go six plus, which Bobby Valentine predicted before the game he did on CBS sports HQ that Yamamoto would see the seventh inning, which he did. And that changes the way Dave Roberts can use his bullpen right to the leverage guys, and even when flex a little bit at the end like Treinen did, you still have Vesey, who they didn't have to use because of Yamamoto's length and so he's then available to get the last out of the game.
Exactly. He might have been used for that sixth inning had Yamamoto not been able to go out there. And that changes the entire complexion. Remember, this guy is a star pitcher. We haven't seen enough of him. He was injured this year, but he's an upper, upper echelon pitcher. You saw tonight. Struck out Aaron Judge twice. Once on the slider, once on the splitter Aaron Judge one for nine with six strikeouts so far in this World Series. Are you kidding me? So one of the things that you have to know is when you score early, the Dodgers had four runs by the third inning. You normally need to add on to win a game. And the Dodgers didn't add on anything, which shows you how great their pitching was to hold this Yankee team. One hit through eight and they obviously added some drama and scored a run in the ninth inning.
But Aaron Judge I still like his presence in the lineup. They're not going to drop him down. They're not going to bench him. But for the Yankees to win, what they have to do is four out of five. I don't see a path to winning four out of five without Aaron Judge making a bigger impact other than just his presence. What do you see is going wrong for judge because you showed us in the green room his swing path and the ball's not there. Yeah, I think that's the kind of hitter he is that there is a zone that his swing connects with. When he connects, it's spectacular. But in these situations, as we see pitch after pitch, they're just going away from this zone here going outside, coming up, coming in and staying out of the danger zone.
And he's not a very good hitter. When the ball is out of the danger zone. And right now he's a terrible hitter. You want to move him down in the lineup. I think something should be done. He needs to have a little stern talking to. Maybe Derek Jeter will sit next to him on the plane ride home and tell him what he needs to hear. Derek Jeter is not on the team plane. That's right. He's not. It. Well, it is the first time in his career with three strikeouts in back to back postseason games.
They fly separately. Bobby. Oh, darn. Yeah, that's that's what it is. Private though. Probably private. The Dodgers and Yankees will both be flying separately. They will not be on the same plane either, as they head to the Bronx for game three of this World Series, it will be Walker Buehler against Clark Schmidt. As you take a look at the Dodgers. With two zero leads against the Yankees in the World Series. Look at this. What do you make of this? I don't know I don't know what I make of it. I will tell you thi. The last time the Yankees were down zero two, right, David was 1996.
I think they came back and won that world Series. I think they came back and won it. They did. Yeah. Coming up much more from game two of the World Series. We'll hear from both managers when our World Series coverage connues here on CBS sports HQ.
