PITTSBURGH — The yardage gap was 285. The third-down gap was 12 percentage points. And in the most decisive measure, the Los Angeles Challengers had no touchdowns to Pittsburgh’s three. Those numbers defined a 33-3 loss to the Blitzkrieg in the XFL Championship on Sunday.

Los Angeles struck first, taking a 3-0 lead on John Ash’s 44-yard field goal with 5:01 left in the first quarter. Pittsburgh answered with a four-yard Fernando Russo touchdown run early in the second, then widened the margin on Cornelius Camp’s 49-yard touchdown pass to Tristan Salas. The Challengers reached halftime down 17-3 after John Bentley added a 47-yard field goal.

The efficiency figures show how hard it was for Los Angeles to keep pace. The Challengers converted 4 of 16 third downs, compared with Pittsburgh’s 4 of 13, and managed just 18 yards on 11 carries. Their 24 completions produced 179 passing yards and no touchdowns. Los Angeles attempted 51 passes, but the volume did not yield enough gains to sustain scoring drives; the team finished with one red-zone visit and no red-zone touchdowns.

Pittsburgh’s offense totaled 482 yards, with 298 passing and 184 rushing. Camp threw for 298 yards and two touchdowns, including the long second-quarter strike to Salas, who finished with 106 receiving yards and a score. Russo contributed 80 rushing yards and a touchdown, plus 45 receiving yards and another touchdown. His 16-yard catch-and-run score in the fourth quarter pushed Pittsburgh’s lead to 32-3.

Bentley supplied the other steady source of points. He made all four field-goal attempts, including kicks from 53 and 54 yards in the third quarter that stretched the lead from 17-3 to 23-3. His 20-yarder after Martin Baughman intercepted Eugene Taylor early in the fourth made it 26-3. Baughman’s pick was Pittsburgh’s lone interception in the team totals; Los Angeles recorded one forced fumble, with Timothy Jackson credited for the play-level strip shown in the game highlights.

The Challengers’ late attempt to answer brought another pass-interference flag on a play intercepted by Joseph Ruano, but no points followed. For a Los Angeles team that opened the scoring, the final margin was a blunt measure of the distance between that first field goal and a championship-caliber offensive performance.