Dodgers crush Yankees with 21 hits and five home runs
The Los Angeles Angels had one of their best performances with the bat in the 2025 season and crushed the New Yorkers from the start of the game.
The Los Angeles Dodgers (36–22) dominated the second game of their regular-season series against the New York Yankees (35–22), cruising to an emphatic 18–2 victory. Powered by 21 hits—including five home runs—the Dodgers overwhelmed the Yankees, allowing only Aaron Judge to stand out individually.
Los Angeles struck early, scoring four runs in the first inning thanks to a strong offensive rally. Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, and Will Smith each singled, with Smith’s hit bringing in Ohtani to open the scoring. Max Muncy followed with an RBI single, Michael Conforto added a sacrifice fly for the third run, and Tommy Edman capped the inning with an RBI double.
The Dodgers kept the pressure on in the second inning, piling on six more runs. Muncy launched his first home run of the game, a three-run shot that brought in Teoscar Hernández and Smith, effectively ending Yankees starter Will Warren’s night. Edman added an RBI double off reliever Brent Headrick, and Hyeseong Kim followed with a two-run homer—the second of his MLB career.
Aaron Judge's second homer of the day goes 425 feet 💪 pic.twitter.com/ABgobjrJih
— MLB (@MLB) June 1, 2025
Yankees squashed by dominant Dodgers
Aaron Judge finally got the Yankees on the board in the fourth with a solo home run, his 20th of the 2025 season.
But the Dodgers weren’t done. In the fifth, Freeman drove in Kim to extend the lead to double digits, and Muncy smashed his second three-run homer of the game, this time off Mark Leiter Jr., making it 14–1.
The onslaught continued in the seventh when Andy Pages launched his 10th home run of the season, a 403-foot solo shot to center field, giving the Dodgers a 15-run cushion.
Judge added his second solo homer of the game in the eighth, slightly narrowing the deficit, but the Dodgers quickly responded. Dalton Rushing, who had replaced Ohtani at designated hitter in the sixth, hit his first home run of the season in the bottom of the eighth to restore the 16-run lead.
Andy makes it 15 runs! pic.twitter.com/XaIYB5wACt
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) June 1, 2025
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With the game well in hand, the Dodgers sent Kiké Hernández to the mound for the ninth. Jasson Domínguez doubled, but Oswald Peraza, Austin Wells, and DJ LeMahieu were retired in order, sealing the Dodgers’ dominant win in Game 2 of the series.
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