NEW YORK — Yankees left-hander Nestor Cortes’ second World Series appearance Monday night in the Bronx was a million times better than his first last Friday at Dodger Stadium.

Coming out of the bullpen and going 1.2 scoreless, Nasty Nestor struck out Shohei Ohtani again and Freddie Freeman only reached first base on a Jazz Chisholm fielding error instead of hitting one to the moon as he did when he hit the first won a walk-off grand slam in the world. Series history.