Yankees beat Dodgers on Sunday, trailing starter Ryan Yabra
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LOS ANGELES - Ryan Yarbrough carefully plans to pick up his 2024 World Series ring this weekend.

The experienced lefty is the Los Angeles Dodgers, who was Toronto Blue Jay Chou until the MLB trade deadline last summer until the penultimate day of training this spring.

On Sunday, the gentle sidearm Yarbrough was the Yankees’ best weapon against Shohei Ohtani and the defending world champion of Dodger Stadium.

Yarbrough used a series of cutters, sinkers, inverters and sweepers to dazzle the Dodgers in six innings and prevent the Yankees from being swept away in this World Series.

Ben Rice highlighted three third-innings in two home runs in Yoshinobu Yamamoto and pushed the Yankees to 54,031 fans with a 7-3 victory, the biggest crowd in Los Angeles this year

Entering the game, Ohtani had 10-10 against Yarbrough in his career, with two doubles, triple and home runs.

But late Sunday afternoon, Yarbrough switched Ohtani and let him fly to the harmless 4-4.

In the 8th-ranked roster, DJ Lemahieu scored four hits in Al East-Leading Yankees (36-22), the first time defeating the Dodgers (36-23) since last year’s World Series Game 4.

Jasson Dominguez leaves the game with thumb injury

Yankees outfielder Jasson Dominguez quit in the sixth inning because the left thumb bruises suffered losses when stealing second base in two rounds of the fifth shot.

Yankees' Ryan Yarbrough Outduels Dodgers'Yoshinobu Yamamoto

Yama entered Sunday with a 1.97 ERA glitter, but the Yankees marked four runs in seven hits and three walks, while Yarbrough lowered his seasonal era to 2.83.

Yarbrough's ERA has started five times since entering the Yankee rotation. Yarbrough was second to four hits in Sunday’s six innings – including Tommy Edman’s home run in the second.

Yarbrough got nothing, hitting five and allowing the Yankees to reset after Saturday's 18-2 loss, when they used six reliefists and a mid-noon infielder Pablo Reyes.

Prior to Sunday's game, the Yankees called veteran Righty Carlos Carrasco and chose Reliever Yerry de Los Santos to Triple-A just to have an emergency extension of relief.

Jonathan Loaisiga led 6-1 with Andy Pages and Max Munchy giving up solo home runs, but Devin Williams and Tim Hill closed it off.