Sweep For New York Yankees As They Beat Los Angeles Angels In 3rd Game Of Series

A sweep occurred in Los Angeles as the New York Yankees beat the Los Angeles Angels 1-0 in the third game of their series in Los Angeles. Yankee starter Clarke Schmidt has not been good this season, but he was good in this game. Los Angeles Starting Pitcher Yusei Kikuchi has historically baffled the Yankees.

It was good that the Yankees got the sweep because, after an off day, they are going to reprise their 2024 World Series match-up with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Do you think the Yankees will capitalize on their momentum and take the series from the Dodgers?

Yankees Get Sweep

The Yankees are now 35-20 and in first place in the American League East. They have won seven consecutive series with their victory over the Angels in Los Angeles last night. The Angels cannot score runs, so the Yankees had a good chance of winning this game, even with the starting pitching match-up of Schmidt versus Kikuchi. The Angels were only 25-29 coming into this game.

Judge May Not Bat .400

In last night’s win, Aaron Judge’s batting average dropped to .391 with an 0-of-2 performance So, he might not have a historical batting average of .400. On Tuesday night both Cal Raleigh and Shohei Ohtani hit home runs, it was the third consecutive game for Ohtani. He has 20 home runs and Raleigh has 19. Judge has 18 home runs.

Judge is third in the majors in home runs and is not even leading the American League in this category. Nevertheless, Judge has multiple hits in 40 games. The only other player who has done that was Babe Ruth (he did it four times). Judge, in this game, was intentionally walked in both the first and second innings.

The Weather

The weather in Los Angeles was nicer than Monday, with clear conditions and temperatures around 70 degrees Fahrenheit. The weather is never that much of a concern in sunny Los Angeles. The nice weather was ideal for the Yankees.

Lineups For the Angels and Yankees

To try to stave off the sweep, the Los Angeles Angels had Zach Neto at shortstop, batting leadoff. Nolan Schanuel was the first baseman batting second. Yoán Moncada was the third baseman, batting third. Taylor Ward was the left fielder, batting fourth. Jorge Soler was the right fielder, batting fifth. Logan O’Hoppe was the designated hitter and batted sixth. Travis d’Arnaud was the catcher and batted seventh. Chris Taylor was the center fielder and batted eighth. Luis Rengifo was the second baseman and batted ninth. 

For the Yankees, Paul Goldschmidt batted first and was the first baseman. Trent Grisham was the center fielder and batted second. Judge batted third and was the designated hitter. Cody Bellinger was the left fielder and batted fourth. Anthony Volpe was the shortstop and batted fifth. Jasson Dominguez was the left fielder and batted sixth. DJ LeMahieu was the second baseman and batted seventh. JC Escarra played catcher and batted eighth. Oswald Peraza was the third baseman, batting ninth. This was the batting order that the Yankees put forth to try to sweep the Angels.

Game Story

The main story of this game was the fact that Los Angeles could not score. They got shut out in this game and are missing Mike Trout and Anthony Rendon. A secondary story in this game was the great pitching. There were only a few hits. There were a bunch of walks. Kikuchi walked 5, including the two intentional passes to Judge.

Scoring Summary

In the first inning, Volpe hit a sacrifice fly and Goldschmidt scored. That gave the Yankees a 1-0 lead. That is how the score stayed. The Yankees won 1-0.

Conclusion

The Yankees are very hot and have a huge seven-game lead in the American League East. They did not need to sweep this series with the Los Angeles Angels. However, the team thought it would be nice to sweep the lowly and struggling Angels, who cannot score runs. The Yankees have a day off Thursday before starting a huge three-game series that reprises the 2024 World Series with the Los Angeles Dodgers. This was New York’s first sweep of the Angels since 1970.