The Dodgers won 7-6 to capture the title.“The sting of not finishing it off stays with you forever,” Boone said.Kelly said on his “ Baseball Isn’t Boring” podcast the Dodgers entered each game saying: “Just let them throw the ball into the infield.

Kelly called the matchup with the Yankees a “mismatch from the get-go” on the Baseball Isn’t Boring show, insisting that the Yankees would be eighth or ninth in a re-ranking of the teams that made the postseason this year.

Dodgers starter Jack Flaherty was flat out of the gate, allowing back-to-back homers to Aaron Judge and Jazz Chisholm in the first inning and an RBI single to Alex Verdugo in the second, which led to him getting the early hook.