The Dodgers won 7-6 to capture the title.“The sting of not finishing it off stays with you forever,” Boone said.Kelly said on his “ Baseball Isn’t Boring” podcast the Dodgers entered each game saying: “Just let them throw the ball into the infield.

Kelly called the matchup with the Yankees a “mismatch from the get-go” on the Baseball Isn’t Boring show, insisting that the Yankees would be eighth or ninth in a re-ranking of the teams that made the postseason this year.

The move follows a bittersweet ending to '24 for New York. The team dispatched the Kansas City Royals and Cleveland Guardians with relative ease to win its first American League pennant since 2009, but crashed out in the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers —losing in five games.