The New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers are facing off in a highly-anticipated weekend matchup at Yankee Stadium beginning Friday night.
The stars certainly will be out in this matchup as both teams enter the weekend series as two of the best teams in baseball.
The Yankees enter the series opener Friday night with the best record in MLB while the Dodgers lead the NL West by eight games and have the second-best record in the National League.
Though we may see him at some point during the weekend, star Juan Soto isn’t in the lineup Friday night for the Yankees as he deals with left forearm inflammation, which was confirmed by an MRI on Friday morning.
MORE: Everything we know about Juan Soto’s injury
The Dodgers will be rolling out the $ 325 million man in Yoshinobu Yamamoto against a tough Yankees lineup. Meanwhile, the Yankees are starting spot-starter Cody Poteet, who is filling in for the injured Clarke Schmidt.
The Yankees have won eight of their last 10 games and 12 of their last 14. This included a 7-2 stretch on the West Coast. The Dodgers are 6-4 in their last 10 games.
The Sporting News is tracking live scoring updates and highlights from the series opener between the Yankees and Dodgers on Thursday night.
Yankees vs Dodgers game recap final box score
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| LAD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | |||
| NYY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Yankees vs Dodgers: Scoring updates, highlights June 7
End of sixth inning: Dodgers 0, Yankees 0
Yamamoto blows a 97 mph fastball by Giancarlo Stanton for his seventh strikeout of the game.
Aaron Judge works a two-out walk.
Alex Verdugo hits a soft line drive to third base
Anthony Volpe grounds out softly to third base
Middle of sixth inning: Dodgers 0, Yankees 0
He ends the inning getting Jason Heyward to ground out.
Tonkin comes into strike out Teoscar Hernandez
Pitching Change — Michael Tonkin comes in for Gonzalez
Gonzalez works his way back to get a big strike out against Will Smith.
Victor Gonzalez starts the inning off hitting Freddie Freeman with a breaking ball.
End of fifth inning: Dodgers 0, Yankees 0
Jose Trevino taps a ball back to the mound to end the inning. Yamamoto has retired 10 batters in a row.
Trent Grisham grounds out to second base
DJ LeMahieu flies out softly to right field.
Middle of fifth inning: Dodgers 0, Yankees 0
Gonzalez gets the job done, getting Ohtani to ground out to first base to end the inning.
Pitching Change — Victor Gonzalez comes in to face Shohei Ohtani with two outs
Mookie Betts shoots a single to right field, moving Hernandez to second base.
Kike Hernandez works a two-out walk.
Gavin Lux grounds out
Poteet starts strong getting Andy Pages to fly out to deep center field
End of fourth inning: Dodgers 0, Yankees 0
Another easy inning for Yamamoto puts Stanton, Rizzo and Torres down in order.
Middle of fourth inning: Dodgers 0, Yankees 0
After a solid battle with Jason Heyward, Poteet gets him to ground out to end the inning.
Poteet hits Teoscar Hernandez with an errant sinker with two outs.
Will Smith flies out to shallow right field.
Poteet gets Freddie Freeman to ground out.
End of third inning: Dodgers 0, Yankees 0
Aaron Judge grounds out weakly to shortstop to end the inning.
Anthony Volpe and Alex Verdugo strike out to begin the inning.
Middle of third inning: Dodgers 0, Yankees 0
Shohei Ohtani mashes a ball to center field, but Grisham is there to end the inning. Came off the bat at 112.8 mph.
Mookie Betts walks.
Cody Poteet picks up his teammate with a nasty pickoff move
Poteet bails out Gleyber pic.twitter.com/oVqtL0eQqb
— Talkin’ Yanks (@TalkinYanks) June 7, 2024
Gleyber Torres makes an inexcusable error putting Kike Hernandez on with one out.
Oh no Gleyber pic.twitter.com/TtBz7qDtxS
— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) June 7, 2024
End of second inning: Dodgers 0, Yankees 0
Jose Trevino strikes out to end the inning, stranding two runners on base.
Trent Grisham singles to center with an exit velo of 104.6 mph.
DJ LeMahieu follows that up with a strikeout.
Gleyber Torres reaches base on a one-out error from Kike Hernandez.
Middle of second inning: Dodgers 0, Yankees 0
Poteet gets out of the inning on just four pitches after Andy Pages flies out.
Poteet gets Jason Heyward to ground into a double play
Teoscar Hernandez starts the inning off with a single
End of first inning: Dodgers 0, Yankees 0
Giancarlo Stanton strikes out to end the inning.
Aaron Judge smokes a two-strike double to left field, extending his on-base streak to 33 games
Aaron Judge doubles to extend his on-base streak to 33 games! pic.twitter.com/AU69ef8wmp
— Talkin’ Yanks (@TalkinYanks) June 7, 2024
Anthony Volpe flies out to left just missing a leadoff home run.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto gets the start
Middle of first inning: Dodgers 0, Yankees 0
Poteet gets Shohei Ohtani to weakly ground out.
Cody Poteet strikes out Mookie Betts to begin the game.
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