LOS ANGELES — Hey Yankees, you’re not in Kansas City anymore.

Or Cleveland.

The easy part of the postseason schedule is gone, and on the other side of the World Series field is a mirror image of the Yankees – only one that makes the game cleaner. One sure to make the Yankees pay for infractions in a way that the less star-studded, less powerful Royals and Guardians could not.

The Yankees made mistakes in the field and on the bases and couldn’t overcome it. Not in the wall of noise that was Dodger Stadium in World Series Game 1. Not when the Yankees could survive a bottom of the 10th plate performance by Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts and when the Dodgers still had Freddie Freeman doing a Kirk Gibson impersonation.

The Yankees had taken a 3-2 lead into the top of the 10th thanks in large part to Jazz Chisholm’s leg. But Jake Cousins ​​walked Gavin Lux with one out in the bottom of the inning. Tommy Edman then hit a grounder to center. Oswaldo Cabrera had come in to save in the 10th after Gleyber Torres had been pinch-run for in the ninth. It was a tough backhand, but if Cabrera can pull it off, he’ll get out somewhere. But the ball trickled away from him.

That brought up Ohtani with two on. Nestor Cortes, who had been placed on the World Series roster after not playing since mid-September with an elbow injury, entered. Ohtani sliced ​​a fly ball down the left field line and Alex Verudgo made a sensational play, diving into the left field corners to catch it. But because he was out, the runners had to move up a base.

So Betts was fired to start a left-on-left duel against Freeman. The Dodgers first baseman hadn’t played in two of the last three NLCS games against the Mets — both started by lefties — as he nursed a sprained right ankle.

Los Angeles had won Game 1 of the 1988 World Series when Kirk Gibson homered to right field off Dennis Eckersley here at Dodger Stadium and then fumbled around the bases. Freeman crushed the ball in the same direction off a Cortes fastball on the first pitch for a grand slam.

It made the final 6-3 in Game 1 of the 120th World Series – a heartbreaker for the Yankees, who helped the Dodgers to this victory.

The Dodgers’ first two runs came on giveaways.

Juan Soto couldn’t catch a ball that spun away from him in the fifth inning that if played correctly is either caught and held for a double, but he walked for an Enrique Herndnez triple and Torres allowed a throw from Soto to score away from him to allow Ohtani to add an extra base to his double following the error in the eighth inning. Being on third, both were positioned to score on sacrifice flies.

In the top of the 10th single, Chisholm stole second, Anthony Rizzo was intentionally walked and Chisholm stole third. Anthony Volpe then hit a slow grounder that shortstop Tommy Edman bobbled as Chisholm scored the tying run. But for some reason, Rizzo stayed ahead of second base and was easily forced out. Would the Yankees have scored more if he just slid in safely – we’ll never know.

But between the mistakes and Aaron Judge still no-hitting — items the Yanks navigated against softer AL Central foes — the Yankees advanced. But can they do this.

Judge was 1-for-5 and struck out his first three batters. He came up with two outs and two on in the ninth and a chance to break the tie after Soto intentionally walked him. But he showed up.

And the Yankees simply can’t outrun their mistakes if Aaron Judge is going to continue to fail on a grand scale in the postseason.

Remember when the question was how much he would intentionally walk. The answer is once so far this postseason. But on Friday night, Dave Roberts ordered Soto to walk in front of Judge with two outs and a runner on second.

So Judge had a chance to break the tie, but he lifted a skyscraper to shortstop. Judge is 6-for-36 in the postseason with 16 shutouts. He is hitless in eight at-bats with runners in scoring position.

If Judge hit like Giancarlo Stanton in October, the Yanks would just put Judge in Monument Park.

Stanton appears to have changed another postseason play that he has been doing throughout October. Jack Flaherty, the almost Yankee, outscored Gerrit Cole by one game. The Yankees were down 1-0 in the sixth. And Dodger Stadium — where one celebrity after another comes to the scoreboard to ask for pure loud noise — was on a roll.

But no one blocks noise like Stanton. Verbal. Written. crowd

He fell behind 0-2 with one out and one on in the sixth — a Soto leadoff single and a three-strikeout third followed. Flaherty then dangled a curve that floated on the inner third for deliciousness. And Stanton did Stanton — producing the hardest-hit World Series ball since tracking began in 2016: 116.6 mph. It went 412 feet deep to the left.

This time the Stantons might not be able to make the difference. Because the Yanks continue to not get enough of Judge. They persist in playing a sloppy style. And because they’re not in Kansas City or Cleveland anymore.

They’re in Los Angeles against another superpower that will make the Yankees pay for not making mistakes.