LOS ANGELES — Yoshinobu Yamamoto found himself in a 2-0 count against Aaron Judge when he delivered a fastball at the bottom of the strike zone — a pitch Judge typically punishes. During the regular season, Judge boasted an otherworldly .975 slugging percentage in that area. Yet, in the sixth inning of Game 2, he watched the pitch, leaving the bat resting on his shoulder.
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“When I’m doing well, I usually fire on that,” Judge said after the Los Angeles Dodgers took a 2-0 lead over the New York Yankees in the World Series.
On the next pitch, Yamamoto delivered a curveball to the same location, but Judge managed only to
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