The Dodgers scored early as Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts hit back-to-back singles and Freddie Freeman doubled and later produced an RBI groundout to put Los Angeles ahead. Yoshinobu Yamamoto started strong, throwing seven dominant innings with ten strikeouts, four hits allowed, one run, and no walks on 98 pitches. A fourth-inning rally briefly broke his perfection, but he recovered and retired eight straight batters after giving up the RBI. The game tightened when Tanner Scott blew the save, then redeemed himself by hitting a pinch-hit walk-off home run to secure a 5-4 victory.
The Dodgers desperately needed to salvage something from this series against the Diamondbacks, and they scored early this time to help put Yoshinobu Yamamoto at ease, and he entered cruise control over seven innings. However, things got nervy again when Tanner Scott blew the save in brutal fashion, but thankfully delivered a pinch-hit walk-off homer to win 5-4.
He responded to the RBI single by retiring the next eight batters he faced, giving up a one-out single in the 7th but nothing else as he completed one of the better starts of the year in terms of stuff and dominance. Double digit strikeouts with just four singles? Hell yeah: 7 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 0 BB, 10 K, 98 Pitches.
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