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They also have the daunting task of having to win 3 consecutive post-season games if they’re to advance to the ALCS.
NLDS
Brewers lead Padres 2 games to 0.
Rays lead Yankees 2 games to 0.
White Sox lead Guardians 2 games to 0.
Dodgers and Braves are each 1-1.With Chris Sale and Tyler Mahle expected to pitch on Tuesday and Wednesday for Atlanta, the Dodgers may have their hands full. (Dodgers have won 3 of the last 6 WS.)
In 9 post-season turns and 56 innings of work, Yamamoto’s 7-1 with an ERA of 2.25, which places him right up there with Bumgarner, Carpenter, Schilling and Smoltz as one of the best high stakes pitchers of the last 30 years. However, in his 3 career NLDS turns, he’s 1-1 with a way less than spectacular 6.00 ERA. He’ll have a worthy pitching counterpart competing on behalf of the Braves in the form of Chris Sale, so the Dodgers would be well advised to suit up and be ready to play baseball in front of what should be an enthusiastic and hostile Braves faithful in ATL. In any case, you couldn’t hardly do any better than a L/R, Sale/Yamamoto pitching matchup if you enjoy watching two pitchers that are thoroughly well practiced and proficient in the fine art of working off of a Big League pitcher’s mound and consistently recording outs. Now that I’ve said that, we’ll see a final score on the order of 12-9…
Dodgers threaten with baserunners aboard at 1B and 2B and 1 out, but Sale K’s Freeman, Smith and Ohtani to escape the 1st inning unscathed. You won’t find Chris Sale in the bargain aisle.
Yamamoto has complete command of more pitches than there are warships in the Japanese Imperial Navy.
Yamamoto is a great pitcher and a fun one to watch especially in the postseason. Him vs Sale is a great matchup.
We’re through 2 innings and the scorecard reads 10 K’s…Might be a difficult day to be holding a bat.
Braves place 2 baserunners aboard with 0 outs, but Yamamoto does what he does and makes pitches when he has to and escapes the 5th still holding a 3-1 lead. I’ve watched him quite a bit and when he’s afforded a few runs, he really goes to work and protects a lead as if he were protecting his favorite Geisha girl.
Players the Dodgers didn’t buy as a free agent or trade for on their postseason roster:
Will Smith – drafted 1st round 2016
Andy Pages – signed out of Dominica in 2018
Josue de Paula – signed out of Dominica in 2022
Edguardo Henriquez – Signed out of Venezuela 2018I guess you can sort of count Roki Sasaki, but he was a professional and chose them.
Saw a funny thing with tucker for the dodgers batting. In between every pitch he digs in the dirt like hes trying to get his feet firmly set but yet while hes batting hes constantly moving his feet up n down so all that digging does no good. Kind of hilarious.
Roberts installs Little Eddie to shore up the Dodger D for the final 2 innings. If he wouldn’t have, I’d have made him submit to a drug screening test…
Outstanding play from Betts and Big Freddie for the final out and a 3-1 Dodger W. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw a pitcher with an ERA well North of 8.00 get the baseball for the 9th. Roberts must be drunk…
Yamamoto is now 8-1 to go along with an ERA of 2.14 when he goes to work in the post-season. He may enter Gibson and Koufax territory before the final out of the ’26 WS.
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