The Los Angeles Dodgers now have a commanding 2-0 lead over the Milwaukee Brewers in the NLCS, with the next three games to be played at Dodger Stadium. In game two, Yoshinobu Yamamoto twirled an absolute gem that resulted in a complete game.
Yamamoto threw 111 pitches, giving up just three hits in nine innings of work. He struck out seven, and what makes his outing so impressive is that he gave up a leadoff home run on the first pitch to Jackson Chourio.
Yoshi was locked in after that and made some MLB history in the process.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto's rare performance in the MLB history book
According to OptaSTATS, Yoshinobu Yamamoto became the second pitcher in MLB postseason history to throw a complete game after giving up a leadoff home run and allowing no runs in the process.
The other time came in the 1954 World Series by the Giants' Johnny Antonelli.
As far as Yoshi's complete game, he was in complete control of the Brewers hitters after giving up the leadoff home run. It was the first complete game in the MLB playoffs in eight years, and the first Dodgers' postseason complete game since 2004.
He is starting to become one of the premier postseason pitchers in MLB history. This is now two straight Octobers that Yamamoto has been dominant, and it may lead to the Dodgers winning consecutive World Series titles. His slow, methodical windup is really hard for hitters to time up, and his splitter and curveball were crisp all night.
Yamamoto is completely living up to being the highest-paid pitcher in MLB with these clutch shutdown performances.
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