The Dodgers are looking to add a right fielder and push Mookie Betts back into the infield. With Betts in the infield along with Tommy Edman, Max Muncy, and Miguel Rojas, it seems that Gavin Lux may need to find an opportunity with another team. Perhaps the Dodgers could move Lux in their quest to add more outfield depth, but where the 26-year-old ends up will have a huge impact on his potential fantasy value.
Lux has reached four times in 11 plate appearances against the Yankees, but just one of those has come via a hit. The lineup: DH Shohei Ohtani, RF Mookie Betts, 1B Freddie Freeman, LF Teoscar Hernandez, 3B Max Muncy, CF Kike Hernandez, SS Tommy Edman, C Will Smith, 2B Lux.
The Yankees won 11-4, but when Weaver entered it was a 6-4 game with two outs, a man on second and Mookie Betts at the plate in the seventh inning. Weaver struck out Betts swinging with a high fastball. In the eighth inning, he retired the side in order and struck out Teoscar Hernandez and Max Muncy swinging. It wasn't a save appearance, but it was an electric relief outing in a two-run game that kept the Dodgers off the board before the Yankees broke the game open with a five-run bottom of the eighth inning.
Rojas missed the NLCS with a hernia injury. He's set to have surgery this offseason, but will continue to play through the injury as he did in the NLDS. He's essentially starting over Gavin Lux against the Yankees' left-hander Carlos Rodon while Tommy Edman goes to centerfield and Enrique Hernandez plays second base. The Dodgers lineup: Shohei Ohtani DH, Mookie Betts RF, Teoscar Hernandez LF, Freddie Freeman 1B, Tommy Edman CF, Enrique Hernandez 2B, Max Muncy 3B, Will Smith C, Miguel Rojas SS and Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound.
Rojas missed the NLCS with a hernia injury. He's set to have surgery this offseason, but will continue to play through the injury as he did in the NLDS. He's essentially starting over Gavin Lux against the Yankees' left-hander Carlos Rodon while Tommy Edman goes to centerfield and Enrique Hernandez plays second base. The Dodgers lineup: Shohei Ohtani DH, Mookie Betts RF, Teoscar Hernandez LF, Freddie Freeman 1B, Tommy Edman CF, Enrique Hernandez 2B, Max Muncy 3B, Will Smith C, Miguel Rojas SS and Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound.