Unleashing the Samurai Ace: Inside Yamamoto's Meteoric Rise in Year Two with Dodgers
The message, evidently, resonated.
When Yamamoto made his next start, in a winner-take-all Game 5 of the NLDS, he pitched five scoreless innings to help the Dodgers to a series victory — then thanked Hernández and others in the clubhouse for their support.
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“I owe my performance today to my teammates,” he said.
And ever since, Yamamoto hasn’t looked back.
Around the same time Yamamoto met with Hernández, he also had a breakthrough with the coaching staff.
The playoffs, Lehmann said, afforded the team’s so-called “run-prevent department” to take a deeper dive with each starting pitchers. They honed in especially close on Yamamoto, concerned he might have been tipping his pitches in his Game 1 defeat.
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