Dodgers star savages Anthony Rizzo in latest Yankees troll

World Series - Los Angeles Dodgers v New York Yankees - Game 5
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The Dodgers' World Series victory lap has been mainly comprised of two things: making fun of Padres fans, and making fun of the Yankees. To be fair, both are warranted; Padres fans were very loud and very wrong about their team's chances in the NLDS, and the Yankees — well, we all know how that went.

The criticism for the latter has ranged from mild shade — Max Muncy saying that the energy at Yankee Stadium was "weird" because it felt like fans were just waiting for something to go wrong — to being plainly disparaging — Joe Kelly saying the Yankees were the "the eighth or ninth-best playoff team" in the postseason or Chris Taylor saying New York "s— down their leg."

Michael Kopech was the latest Dodger to weigh in on LA's win, and his criticism lands somewhere in between the two sides of the spectrum, but he also wasn't afraid to name names when the rest of the Dodgers mostly put things in more broad terms.

During an appearance on "Baseball Isn't Boring," he said, "Man, I really didn’t want to say names here. I’m just gonna say it. Rizzo made hundreds of mound visits in the World Series. You can almost see the pitchers’ faces, just like, ‘What could they be talking about right now?’."

“We had a running joke in the bullpen of ‘Rizzo visits remaining.’ It was like, every time there was a mound visit, it was Rizzo.”

Michael Kopech has a biting criticism for Yankees, Anthony Rizzo as Dodgers continue to troll New York

Rizzo did go to the mound a lot during the World Series but, weirdly, only once and at the worst possible time during the atrocious fifth inning of Game 5 that eventually won the game for LA. It wasn't when the bases loaded for the first time, not after both he and Gerrit Cole declined to cover first base and allowed a run to score, not immediately after Teoscar Hernández tied the game with a two-run double.

Only after Muncy had made it to first on a two-out walk did any of the Yankees approach the mound. Cole had been up there alone for nearly 20 long minutes with five unearned runs now on the board for LA when the Yanks decided to give him a breather.

Too little, too late. Dodgers players are clearly still in line to make fun of the Yankees, and we say stay in line.

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