Yamamoto’s Unstoppable Streak: What’s Fueling His Relentless Drive?
The Dodgers are top dogs, and honestly, even when they weren’t winning the World Series they probably could’ve been looked at as the ideal franchise. This is a team with seemingly unlimited money in their pockets. They continue to trade to improve even after good seasons. They lost in the playoffs, and went out and got Shohei Ohtani, and traded for Tyler Glasnow. They win the World Series, they go out and sign the best pitcher available in Blake Snell and another Japanese player, making that three that will be big contributors to the team this season. They do struggle with injury, specifically with pitching, but that’s the only real blemish for them. Today they get the guy that I think should be Cy Young on the mound, Yoshinobu Yamamoto. For the season, he has been brilliant. He is 6-3 with a 1.97 ERA and a 0.91 WHIP. His worst start of the year was earlier this month against the Diamondbacks, but remove that, he has allowed nine earned runs and just three homers over 59 innings this season. He was very good against the Yankees in the playoffs last year, and held them to just three hits in 24 at-bats.
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