Complex sentence: Joe Torre and Don Mattingly played against the Yankees, who won the series two games to one, for the first time since joining the Dodgers and Torre's first meeting with Rodriguez since the writing of Torre's book.
Split into simpler sentences: Joe Torre and Don Mattingly played against the Yankees, who won the series two games to one. The Yankees encountered Joe Torre for the first time since joining the Dodgers and Torre's first meeting with Rodriguez since the writing of Torre's book.