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\u201cI see it that way, and I\u2019m sure everybody in that clubhouse sees it that way. The reality (could have been) going back to LA leading 3-2. It didn\u2019t happen that way and they deserve all the credit in the world, they won the World Series. At the moment, they showed they were the better team.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Cortes arguably has a point that the series was closer than the five-game length would indicate. The Dodgers only outscored the Yankees by one run over five games.<\/p>\n However, that is slightly slanted by New York\u2019s 11-4 victory in Game 4. The Yankees never led in Games 2 or 3, while the Dodgers had a lead at one point in every game of the series.<\/p>\n Cortes does own up to his role in blowing Game 1, a scenario many argued\u00a0he should have never even been put into. He is correct that the Yankees made a number of mistakes, including\u00a0a litany of them in Game 5.<\/p>\n The bottom line is that the Dodgers were far more effective at limiting their mistakes than the Yankees were, and that is one of the marks of a good team that was playing better baseball.<\/p>\n It is also risky to assume the rest of the series plays out exactly the same even if the Dodgers close out Game 1. Both managers may have navigated games slightly differently, especially since the Dodgers avoided using their best pitchers late in Game 4 as the Yankees ran up their margin of victory.<\/p>\n Comments like this from losing teams\u00a0are a tale as old as time. Had the Yankees played a cleaner series, perhaps they would have won.<\/p>\n They did not, and over a five-game series, it\u2019s tough to dispute that both teams got the outcome they deserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A former New York Yankee is trying for some revisionist history when it comes to the team\u2019s 2024 World Series loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Pitcher… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"\n