The Los Angeles Dodgers won and lost on Saturday night.

They won Game 2 of the World Series 4-2 against the New York Yankees and took a two-game lead. But they lost superstar Shohei Ohtani to an apparent left shoulder injury on a stolen base attempt in the seventh inning.

The extent of the injury and Ohtani's availability for the remainder of the series remain unknown.

Before the sight of Ohtani writhing in pain calmed the crowd, it was another joyous evening at Dodger Stadium, and the man in the spotlight was Dodgers rookie Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

After his 80th pitch, in the sixth inning, Yamamoto spun from the mound, clenched his fists and roared. He had just sneaked a splitter past Aaron Judge's bat for an inning-ending strikeout. Judge walked back to the Yankees dugout and shook his head.

This picture told the story of this World Series so far. The Dodgers delivered. Judge and the Yankees are looking for answers. In a crucial second game, they recorded just four hits – three of which came in the ninth inning.

Yamamoto gave the Dodgers 6 1/3 innings of one-run baseball. As he left, he received a handshake from manager Dave Roberts and a standing ovation from the audience. He had done his job – and more.

Yankees starter Carlos Rodón's home run problem reared its ugly head again at the worst possible time. In the second inning, Tommy Edman hit a home run. (Juan Soto answered.) In the third, Rodón Ohtani struck out before getting into two troubles: Mookie Betts singled, Teoscár Hernández and Freddie Freeman hit consecutive home runs, and Edman doubled. Rodón was ejected after 3 1/3 innings after allowing six hits – half of them homers – and four runs.

The bigger concern in the Bronx is the continued disappearance of the Yankees' star slugger. Judge was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts, increasing his postseason line to 6-for-40 (.150).

Soto's home run was the Yankees' only hit until the ninth, when he started a rally by knocking Blake Treinen off the wall. Giancarlo Stanton and Jazz Chisholm Jr. were single. Anthony Rizzo was hit by the pitch, which loaded the bases and put the tying run in scoring position. But Treinen left Anthony Volpe behind, and left-hander Alex Vesia induced a first-pitch fly out from pinch-hitter Jose Trevino.

The Yankees will face Clarke Schmidt and Dodgers starter Walker Buehler in Game 3 on Monday night at Yankee Stadium.