NEW YORK (Interstat) — Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit a tiebreaking solo home run in the eighth inning to lift the New York Yankees to a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday in the first game of a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium II.

The win snapped a two-game losing streak for the Yankees, who had dropped the first two games of the series to the Dodgers by scores of 8-2 and 2-1. New York improved to 55-45, while Los Angeles fell to 64-37.

The decisive moment came in the bottom of the eighth after the Dodgers had tied the game in the top of the inning. Tommy Edman, batting as a pinch hitter, launched a solo home run to right-center field off Yankees reliever Ryan Yarbrough to knot the score at 1-1. It was Edman’s second homer of the season.

But the Yankees answered quickly. With one out in the bottom half, Chisholm drove a 1-1 pitch from Dodgers reliever Will Klein over the left-center field fence for his 14th homer of the season, giving New York a 2-1 lead. After the homer, Ryan McMahon followed with a ground-rule double, but Klein and later Evan Phillips worked out of further trouble. Phillips recorded the final two outs of the inning and was credited with the loss, his second against no wins this season.

The game featured a parade of effective relievers on both sides. The Yankees used five pitchers, with Brent Headrick delivering two scoreless innings of relief, striking out three without allowing a hit. Paul Blackburn worked 2⅓ innings, yielding one hit and no runs with one strikeout. David Bednar earned the victory, pitching 1⅔ hitless innings with two strikeouts, improving to 5-3. Yarbrough started and went 2⅔ innings, allowing two hits and one run — the Edman homer — with one strikeout.

For the Dodgers, Kyle Hurt pitched two hitless innings with one strikeout. Brock Stewart contributed two hitless innings with two strikeouts. Alex Vesia struck out three in a perfect inning, and Edgardo Henriquez recorded one strikeout in two-thirds of a scoreless inning. Klein took the loss, allowing three hits and one earned run in one inning.

The Yankees took the early lead in the first inning. After Trent Grisham and Ben Rice were retired, Paul Goldschmidt doubled to right field. Cody Bellinger followed with an RBI single to center field, scoring Goldschmidt. Jasson Domínguez then singled, putting runners at first and second, but Chisholm struck out to end the inning.

From there, the game settled into a pitchers’ duel. The Dodgers managed only four hits total, including Edman’s homer and singles by Eliezer Alfonzo, Shohei Ohtani and Miguel Rojas. They threatened in the third when Alfonzo and Ohtani singled with two outs, but Andy Pages flied out to end the inning. In the fifth, Rojas singled but was erased on a double play.

The Yankees collected eight hits. Goldschmidt and Bellinger each had two hits. Bellinger drove in the first run and also walked. Domínguez had a single. Ben Rice singled in the fifth. McMahon doubled in the eighth.

New York nearly added to its lead in the fourth. Anthony Volpe and Austin Wells drew walks, but José Caballero grounded into a fielder’s choice that cut down Volpe at home. In the fifth, the Yankees loaded the bases with singles by Rice, Goldschmidt and Bellinger, but Domínguez struck out, Chisholm popped out and Volpe struck out.

The Dodgers’ best chance before the eighth came in the eighth itself. After Edman’s homer, Teoscar Hernández struck out, Max Muncy walked and Dalton Rushing walked. But Shohei Ohtani struck out and Pages popped out to end the inning with the score tied.

The game ended when David Bednar retired the Dodgers in order in the ninth, striking out Mookie Betts and inducing a forceout and a popout.

Attendance was 43,378, and the game time was 2 hours, 51 minutes.

The Dodgers had won three of their previous four games before Sunday, including the first two of this series. The Yankees had lost five of their previous seven. The doubleheader provided an opportunity for New York to regain momentum. The second game was scheduled to follow later Sunday.

Los Angeles next travels to Philadelphia for a three-game series starting Monday, then goes to New York to face the Mets. New York hosts Pittsburgh for three games starting Monday before traveling to Philadelphia and Chicago.

The Dodgers were installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of minus-1.5 runs. The total of three runs scored went over the over/under line of 7.5.