The Yankees might need a second bulletin board for all the material the Dodgers are giving them.
Shortstop Miguel Rojas, appearing on “Chris Rose Sports” podcast, joined a growing list of Dodgers to corroborate reporting from The Post’s Joel Sherman: The Yankees lack discipline, they don’t execute the details and they beat themselves under pressure.
“Their weakness was the way they make outs on the bases, the way they didn’t take care of the baseball, [their] lazy defense,” Rojas told Rose on Wednesday.
His comments came just days after Dodgers reliever Joe Kelly said virtually the same thing on his “Baseball Isn’t Boring” podcast: “We had seen it [in] every single game— just let them throw the ball to the infield, they can’t make a play.”
As Rojas put it in his conversation with Rose, “We knew we were good, [we just had] to put pressure on them so they [would] make those little mistakes.”
And his Dodgers did just that.
They put the ball in play. They ran hard around the bases. They made the routine look routine.
All the little things added up to a five-game World Series win and the franchise’s eighth World Series.
In preparing for their Fall Classic showdown against the Yankees, Rojas said Los Angeles looked back towards their divisional round matchup versus the San Diego Padres.
“We faced the hungriest team, [the Padres], early in the playoffs— that was the best team in baseball at the time. And the way that those guys ran the bases, the way they put pressure on the defense, it prepared us [for facing the Yankees],” Rojas said.
For all his bluster, Rojas appeared in just one World Series game — or one more than Kelly — going 0-for-3 in LA’s 4-2 Game 2 win.
“We knew [the Yankees] were a good team and [that] they were playing hot baseball— swinging the bat [well]. But [in terms of] the fundamentals of the game, we [knew we] could be better, and that was the difference in that series.”
As glaring as that difference was and as listless as the Yankees appeared throughout much of the series, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman has maintained the team is on the cusp and were a good team that “just played poorly in that series.”
