Dodgers and Yankees Face Off in Los Angeles
The juggernaut franchises faced off in the World Series 11 times between 1941 and 1981. But since then, they had been limited to 16 interleague games against each other heading into this weekend. And the last time they met, the Yankees and the Dodgers didn’t even look the part.
“I’m glad we get to wear our normal uniforms this time instead of the weird black and whites we wore the last time this happened,” Gerrit Cole, the ace starting pitcher of the Yankees, said Friday afternoon when discussing the three-game series in August 2019 in which the players wore alternative jerseys for the short-lived Players’ Weekend.
While the iconic New York road grays and Los Angeles home whites have everyone looking sharp, the teams are still working hard to play more like themselves.
On the surface, though, everything has seemed fine.
The Yankees ripped through the past month, winning 19 of 29 games before Friday and constructing the best record in Major League Baseball since May 2. The Dodgers, after beating the Yankees, 8-4, in Friday night’s series opener, were tied with Arizona for the best record in the National League (35-23).
Source: The New York Times
