LOS ANGELES — A day late and a dollar short.
The Yankees brought in lefty Tim Hill in the bottom of the fifth inning on Saturday after going with Nestor Cortes in the 10th inning of Friday’s Game 1 of the World Series that ended with Freddie Freeman’s historic grand slam.
The results in Saturday’s 4-2 Game 2 loss only made Friday’s decision look worse, as the side-arming lefty Hill came in and got Game 1 hero Freeman to pop to short and then got Tommy Edman — who had homered and doubled earlier in Game 2 — looking to end the fifth with the Yankees trailing by three runs.
Hill retired all four batters he faced — including the first two in the sixth — before being removed for Clay Holmes.
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It was another example of the journeyman Hill, who the Yankees picked up from the moribund White Sox earlier in the year, getting batters out — which is something Cortes hadn’t done in 37 days before he came into Game 1 after missing over a month with an elbow injury.