Chisholm's 402-Foot Blast Breaks Tie, Yankees Edge Dodgers 2-1
Jazz Chisholm Jr. crushed a 402-foot homer to left center in the eighth inning, swinging New York's win probability from 56% to 84% in a single swing. The Yankees held on to beat the Dodgers 2-1 in a game that was as tight as the final score suggests.
For seven innings, this game was a pitching showcase dressed up as a baseball game. Brent Headrick opened for New York with 2.0 scoreless innings, striking out three without allowing a hit or a walk. Brock Stewart matched him for Los Angeles — 2.0 innings, zero hits, zero runs, two strikeouts. Ryan Yarbrough then worked 2.2 innings for the Yankees, allowing just two hits and no runs, before Paul Blackburn closed out his 2.1-inning stint with one hit and one walk allowed. The story of the early going was pitching on both sides refusing to blink.
The scoring, when it finally came, was front-loaded and then explosive. Cody Bellinger singled to center in the first inning, plating Paul Goldschmidt to give New York a 1-0 lead. That's where it stayed for the better part of the game — a one-run margin that felt enormous given how little either offense was doing. Then the eighth inning arrived and rewrote everything. Tommy Edman launched a 387-foot homer to right center, knotting the game at 1-1 and giving Los Angeles reason to believe. The momentum shift looked real. It lasted about one batter. Chisholm stepped in and sent a 402-foot shot to left center that put New York back on top 2-1, and this time the lead held.
The win-probability swing on Chisholm's homer — from 56% to 84%, a 28-point jump — tells you everything about how decisive that at-bat was. Edman finished 1-for-2 with the home run and an RBI, doing everything he could to keep Los Angeles alive. Bellinger went 2-for-3 with the RBI that started the scoring, and Goldschmidt was 2-for-4 with a run scored, giving New York's offense just enough texture around the big swing. Shohei Ohtani went 1-for-4 for the Dodgers, and Miguel Rojas was 1-for-2. Los Angeles appears to have left this one on the table — the pitching was good enough to win, but the offense couldn't answer Chisholm when it mattered most. New York took a low-scoring, tense game and found the one swing that decided it.