Yoshinobu Yamamoto COMPLETE GAME GEM for the Dodgers in NLCS Game 2! 💎 | 山本由伸ハイライト
So one away. Here’s Caleb Durban now with Freelick a base stealer at first base. Durban on the first pitch. Very aggressive. The Brewers hitters so far. The Dodgers defense had that same play against Philadelphia and the division series. Muki threw a perfect throw to first base. EMTT Sheen just missed it. That one not a good throw by Muki. Be very interesting to see if the Brewers deploy the running game against Yamamoto. He has not been great in that category as Durban whistles one foul. A lot of early swings by the Brewers. They’ve had first pitch swings, five of their seven batters. And Durban jumping on the first two offerings. essentially not only early swings but good contact even if it’s going good contact but these ball splitter sinker are in on some of these righties and those are the ones you just can’t keep fair oh and two the count on Durban and called strike three stuck the fast ball right by him and the first strike Take out for Yamamoto. It is out number two of this second inning. Get Yamamoto out there. 24 pitches one time through the lineup. Back to the top of the order as Jackson Cheerio takes a strike. Tyler Glass now. We might see him game three. May see him game four. It’s either going to be Glass Now or Otani in those first two games in Los Angeles, which will be games three and four. No, that’s foul. That’s down. That was a foul ball. Smith tried to grab that before it went into foul territory. Kate Morales home played umpire all over that glass now he pitched the gym against the Phillies obviously watching this lineup closely and it is a little out of character Brewers two plate appearances thus far of four more pitches and that is something they normally do quite a bit from everybody in their lineup as Cheurio cuts and misses and Yamamoto wipes him out. Big fast ball upstairs for Yamamoto. Picks up his second strikeout. Two men out here in the third. Well, he’s done a great job of using his fast ball with two strikes. He got Durban to look at one on the outside corner and Churiel swings through one on the inside corner. We will resume Thursday at 5:30 Eastern on TBS and streaming on HBO Max. Mariners up 20 in their series. Going back home. You know it’s going to be rocking there at T-Mobile Park. Christian Yelich leads off for the Brew Crew and Yamamoto after giving up a leadoff home run to Jackson Cheerio on the first pitch has settled in nicely. Worked around an error in the second inning. Brewers have just the two hits. Yamamoto with a couple of strikeouts. A lot of balls on the ground thus far. Yamamoto was already a star when he came to Major League Baseball. Three times he was the MVP of his league in Japan. He won the pitching triple crown three times as well as he strikes out Christian Yelich. Led that league and wins ERA in strikeouts on three occasions. signed a 12year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers. And that is a mean splitter that he breaks out. I don’t know, 12 stolen base attempts. Only seven successful. So Yamamoto’s pretty good, but you’re talking about a catcher who has an injury trying to play through an injury. I think you got to take the shot to be aggressive. Yeah. No balls in a strike on Caleb Durban. And it’s quickly 02. You know, I I was lucky enough to watch the division series and they played a team that they’re very used to playing the Cubs. So, they played their approach that entire series. They’ve been taken out of that a little here against the Dodgers, but their pitching has been excellent. That could be one of the big reasons. 02. Two outs on Durban with Sal. Freelick at first base. And he got him. Back to the splitter he goes. and he strikes out Caleb Durban. Inning is over. Strands a runner at first. Two to one Dodgers. Yamamoto is dealing. Yamamoto a splitter to start. Terra had a hunch he’d be in ambush mode. Tang with a nice piece of hitting his last time up. Slapped one to left. That came with two outs. Paul, two splitters in a row. The Dodgers scored on a base hit from Pahz that went down the right field line because rightfielder was playing so far off the line. Same situation here with the Dodgers defense against Terra. One and two on Terra. Namono has made his pitches. He finished second in the National League in ERA this year. 249 ERA right off Mass Cam. Thanks to Gabe Morales for giving us those looks in his second championship series. One ball, two strikes. Ortiz takes off and the pitch is a called strike three. No throw needed. Yamamono drops a big curve on Bryce Terang. The inning is over and it’s still 2 to1 Dodgers after five. Last start the Phillies were three for five off that splitter. A pitch that opposing batters in the regular season hit 134 off. So maybe it’s back with a 43% K rate and he’s been outstanding with that pitch tonight. He’s gone through seven. Had a long window there between innings for Yamamoto with that long inning. Dodgers only got the one run. They stranded the bases loaded. Isaac Collins pinch hitting immediately down 02. Yamamono trying to back up Blake Snell’s performance yesterday. Now win eight innings, struck out 10. Teams to have multiple starts of eight innings or more in the same postseason. Got to go back to 2016. The division series matchup between the Giants and the Cubs. Giants had Madison Bumgardner and Johnny Quaido do it back to back. Matt Moore also win a in that series. Ironically, with that great starting pitching, the Cubs won that division series. Yes, they did. And that’s what Yamamoto and Snell trying to do here to Milwaukee in the first two games of this series. First at bat for Collins here. Pinch hitting for Joey Ortiz. And a called strike three right on the edge. Impeccable command all night long. Yamamoto with his sixth strikeout. This four seam fast started in the middle and moved right to that corner. No sink. Just drifted straight across home plate right to that outside corner. Yoshi Yamamoto is on the mound to try to finish this one. his ninth inning. First pitch strike in there. Pitch count is in great shape. Defense tightening up for the Dodgers. Justin Dean in center moves Pahes to right. Last time the Dodgers had a complete game in a postseason game 2004, 21 years ago. Game three of the NLDS. Jose Lima. Limit. That’s the shout out. the late Joseé Lima, one of the game’s great characters, right? And now Yoshinoi Yamamoto has a chance to do that is like the dodo bird in the modern game to see a pitcher finish a game. One of the rarest birds. William Contrera starts it. Foul ball out of play makes it one and two. The last nine outs Yamamoto has gotten, eight of them have been ground balls. 13 ground ball outs this evening. [Applause] That was pitch number 100. It has been not only efficient, but very little stress behind him. He has retired 11 straight, 72 strikes in the 101 pitches he’s thrown. That’s a big strike percentage. Two and two to Contrarus. Count stays at 22. And I think that’s probably one of Dave Roberts thought process, right? If there were some stressful pitches, he’s at 101. My guy did everything. But the way he’s been able to control the game, he said with Snell last night, pulled him, got close. So, not taking any chances tonight. Two and two. And Contraras flicks one foul. [Music] Yamamoto has hardly hardly been on the stretch. That home run he gave up to Cheerio in the first was on the first pitch. He’s only thrown 19 pitches in this game from the stretch. Been in the wind up been in control the whole way. Two and two. And Contrarus Sky one to center. Dean settles under it and there is out number one. That was a rare hanging breaking ball there from Yamamoto, but Contraro still couldn’t handle it. Ronnie Yamamoto was a star in Japan for the Orex Buffaloos in the Pacific League, Japanese major leagues. And while he has not thrown a complete game in the major leagues as a Dodger, that was a pretty regular occurrence in Japan. Yeah, he had 14 complete games in Japan where they’re allowed to throw more pitches than they are here. We have, of course, the most arbitrary 100 pitch mark. And that’s for everyone. Doesn’t matter if you’re 6’8 or 6’4 or 510. 100 pitch is the mark. Except in little league, then you’ll get 140 from the 12-year-old. Delabonoto had a shoulder injury last year. He missed three months on the injured list. came back was ready for the postseason. There’s a chopper to Yamamoto. He’s got it and the Dodgers are an out away from a two nothing advantage in this best of seven series. And Yamamoto is an out away from a complete game gem. Signed a 12-year, $325 million deal. largest contract for a pitcher in major league history at the time. Not to mention the 50 million posting fee the Dodgers paid his team in Japan. Orics for moments like this. Two of his three starts. Superb in the postseason this year. 0 and two the count. A strike away. Yamamoto deals and a foul ball by Vaughn. Such a rhythmic kind of motion. Has that little delay at the bottom before he delivers. Rocks back and forth. [Applause] Here he comes. the O2 and a swing and a miss and Yoshi Yamamoto with his crown jewel as a Dodger. It is a complete game. He goes the distance and the Dodgers win game two by a score of five to one and Yamamoto stands tall on this night in Milwaukee. [Music] Bye-bye.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto was built for the Postseason. The Los Angeles Dodgers starter threw a dominant complete game vs. the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series on October 14, 2025.
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