Los Angeles Dodgers at New York Yankees

NEW YORK – It hasn’t been anything like the type of season Jazz Chisholm Jr. envisioned for himself. He’d love for this to be the swing that turns it around. Chisholm cracked a tiebreaking home run off Evan Phillips in the eighth inning that powered the Yankees to a 2-1 victory over the Dodgers, salvaging the finale of a split-admission doubleheader on Sunday evening at Yankee Stadium. “It’s definitely a long way out to left field,” Chisholm said. “I just forget about all the stuff that happened early in the game and lock in on that one at-bat. I’m just trying to help my team win any way I can.” After the Yankees were largely silenced by Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s complete-game effort in Sunday’s first game, an 8-2 loss, manager Aaron Boone said that his team’s scuffling lineup “has got to do more.” The Bombers’ bats were limited to Cody Bellinger’s first-inning RBI single through the first seven innings of the nightcap. Chisholm answered the call late, taking a Phillips fastball to the opposite field for his 14th home run of the season. “That was a huge, huge swing there,” Bellinger said. “To go oppo, that’s a lot of power. It was just a really good win.” “That gave us the spark we needed,” said Brent Headrick, who retired all six batters he faced in relief. A potential free agent after the season, Chisholm came into the year with lofty aspirations, boasting that he planned to join Shohei Ohtani as the only players to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a single season. Ohtani might have been in town this weekend, but Chisholm isn’t in his neighborhood. Chisholm said his performance has “sucked all season,” pointing to a .224/.302/.403 stat line that includes 14 homers and 26 steals. “The numbers speak for themselves,” Chisholm said. The Yankees didn’t discourage Chisholm from shooting for the moon, but they never expected Chisholm to equal Ohtani’s numbers. They hoped he would replicate what he did last year, joining Bobby Bonds (1975) and Alfonso Soriano (2002, ’03) as the franchise’s only players to have 30-30 seasons. At this point, 30-30 also seems out of reach, but it’s not too late for Chisholm to help the Yankees reach their playoff goals. To do that, Boone believes they need to squeeze more production out of every bat in the lineup, especially while Aaron Judge remains out indefinitely. “We’ve got to be more consistent offensively, first and foremost,” Boone said. “That’s been the biggest thing that I think has ailed us through these few weeks. Ther