He leads the team with 47 RBIs (third in the NL) and is tied with Shohei Ohtani for the team lead in home runs (15). In the past three games (two in the Bronx), Hernandez is 7 for 13 with two doubles, three home runs and nine RBIs — including the game-winning two-run double in the 11th Friday night.

“I just like to face good teams. The Yankees are having a really, really good season like always. I like it. I don’t know,” Hernandez said.

“That’s what makes you a really good player. I want to be a really good player. I want to be in those situations every time, even if I strike out or I don’t get the job done. The next opportunity, I want it back and just try to do better.”

With Hernandez providing the power, the Dodgers have handed the team with the best record in baseball consecutive losses, guaranteeing themselves a series win in their first visit to Yankee Stadium since 2016.

The two teams traded runs early. Aaron Judge hit the first of his two home runs in the game. Hernandez hit the first of his two for the Dodgers. The Yankees scored a run on a fielder’s choice. The Dodgers got one on an RBI single by Shohei Ohtani.

Dodgers rookie starter Gavin Stone was fighting his way through New York traffic most of the night. The Yankees put the first two runners on base in the first and second innings, gave up Judge’s homer in the third and stranded two after an Alex Verdugo double in the fifth.

Stone even loaded the bases with two outs in the sixth before handing the ball to Vesia. Vesia got Anthony Volpe to fly out, ending the threat and leaving the Yankees 0 for 6 with runners in scoring position and eight runners left on base in six innings.

Kiké Hernandez has been slumping recently, going 7 for 44 before Saturday. But he went deep to right field in the fifth inning to give the Dodgers the lead. After Alex Verdugo misplayed Freddie Freeman’s line drive into a double, the Dodgers added another run in the sixth.

Thanks to short starts by James Paxton and Walker Buehler in Pittsburgh and Friday’s extra innings, the Dodgers relievers had to cover 16 1/3 innings over three days, leaving Roberts with limited options Saturday.

Alex Vesia did his part, retiring all four batters he faced including striking out Judge in the seventh.

“That kind of flipped the game for us and the offense took off from there,” Roberts said.

In the eighth, the Dodgers took the game out of the bullpen’s hands and broke it open with the help of former Dodgers reliever Tommy Kahnle.

An error by second baseman Gleyber Torres and two walks loaded the bases for Teoscar Hernandez with one out. Hernandez got a 2-and-2 changeup down and in and sent it 424 feet into the Dodgers’ bullpen in left-center field for his second grand slam of the season.

Teoscar Hernandez wasn’t the biggest headline signing of the Dodgers’ winter. But his value has been a boon for a Dodgers’ lineup looking for production from anyone other than the top four hitters in their lineup.

“He’s been a stalwart,” Roberts said. “I think there’s certainly some chase in there, some strikeout in there certainly. But he’s driven in a lot of big runs for us, taken a lot of good at-bats. To have a guy in there that hits righties, hits lefties, can slug and can smell a run batted in — it’s been big.”