The left-hander stifles his former team in a 7-3 win, leaving the Dodgers’ top four hitters without a hit as the Yankees salvage finale after allowing 26 runs in first two games.

A couple of crooked numbers on the linescore did the trick for the Yankees Sunday, three runs in the third and two in the fifth off of Yoshinobu Yamamoto contributing to a 7-3 New York victory that prevented a weekend sweep, in the same manner — though not as grisly — as a bullpen blowup Wednesday in Cleveland derailed a potential sweep there.

Ryan Yarbrough limited baseball’s best offense to four hits over six innings, Ben Rice hit a tiebreaking two-run homer and the New York Yankees defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-3 to avoid getting sw