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Yamamoto
I watched the entire game last night. Absolutely mesmerizing. And yes, with all the commercial interruptions and other non-baseball stuff, one can catch up on a NASCAR race and college football games. And even a bit of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
This is truly insane (in a good way):
When the Los Angeles Dodgers shelled out $325 million to lure Yoshinobu Yamamoto from Japan to Southern California, it was reasonable to wonder if they had gone completely crazy.
Yamamoto had never played a single inning of American baseball. And yet a major-league franchise had taken the outrageous step of signing him to a 12-year guaranteed contract that ranked as the largest ever awarded to a pitcher.
It took just two of those years for Yamamoto to demonstrate what the Dodgers saw in him, establishing himself this season as one of the top starters in the sport.
But this October, he has proven himself to be something even greater, something the Dodgers couldn’t have predicted when they gave him all that money. Yamamoto has become an ace.
Not an ace by the heavily diluted standards of 2025, a time when crossing 110 pitches is an unreasonable workload and a six-inning outing is considered “dominant.” No, Yamamoto has become an ace in the classical definition of the word, the kind of old-school ace that would make Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale proud. The kind of ace who harks back to a time when “bullpen days” didn’t exist, relieving was for wimps and starters were expected to serve as their own closers.
On Saturday, Yamamoto evened up the World Series at 1-1 by twirling a masterpiece. He delivered the first complete game in the Fall Classic since Johnny Cueto did it for the Kansas City Royals in 2015, powering the Dodgers to a 5-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays. Yamamoto allowed just four hits and struck out eight. He retired the final 20 batters he faced, needing 105 pitches to record 27 outs.
And that wasn’t even the craziest part. The last time he took the ball, Yamamoto did the same thing, going the distance against the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series.
