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Another Dodgers player takes aim at ‘lazy’ Yankees in post-World Series attack

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Another Dodgers player takes aim at ‘lazy’ Yankees in post-World Series attack

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

Miguel Rojas joined Chris Rose to talk about Los Angeles’ World Series victory. Chris Rose Sports / X

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.”

Miguel Rojas of the Los Angeles Dodgers speaks during the 2024 World Series Celebration at Dodger Stadium. Getty Images

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.

Dodgers fans celebrate the team’s eighth franchise pennant with a parade through downtown L.A. Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

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.

Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Enrique Hernandez (8) reaches second base after outfielder Aaron Judge (not pictured) dropped a fly ball during the fifth inning in Game Four of the 2024 MLB World Series at Yankee Stadium. USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Con

“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.”

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