Los Angeles Dodgers at New York Yankees: Final Score & Recap

The New York Yankees defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-4 on June 9, 2024, at Yankee Stadium, with the DiamondIQ model's estimate of a New York win moving from 62 percent before first pitch to a certainty by game's end. The Yankees built their lead quietly, scoring twice in the third before the Dodgers mounted a response, and the decisive sequence of the game arrived in the bottom of the sixth inning when Trent Grisham connected on a home run off Tyler Glasnow, a swing that shifted win probability by 31.5 percent in New York's favor and effectively reestablished the Yankees' control after the Dodgers had threatened to take the lead. Los Angeles had briefly narrowed the gap in the top of that same inning, as Teoscar Hernández hit a home run off Luis Gil that added 14.6 percent to the Dodgers' win probability, and Mookie Betts had earlier kept the Dodgers in contention with a double in the fifth that represented a 17.1 percent swing. However, Betts grounded into a double play in the seventh off Luke Weaver, a momentum-killing sequence that cost the Dodgers 14.0 percent in win probability at a moment when they still had a chance to close the deficit.

Grisham finished as the game's most impactful offensive performer, accumulating a WPA of plus-31.7 percent and a RE24 of plus-2.6, while Aaron Judge added to New York's cushion with a home run off Yohan Ramírez in the eighth for a 12.0 percent swing, closing with a WPA of plus-20.2 percent and a RE24 of plus-1.9. On the mound, Luke Weaver was the most valuable Yankees reliever by the DiamondIQ model's accounting, contributing plus-12.0 percent in WPA, with Clay Holmes adding plus-6.3 percent. For the Dodgers, Caleb Ferguson was the pitching staff's weakest link by WPA, finishing at minus-7.3 percent. Both teams finished with nine hits and committed no errors, making the difference a matter of timely hitting, with the Yankees simply converting their opportunities at more consequential moments.