The Los Angeles Dodgers swept a three-game series against the Washington Nationals. Starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched his best game since joining the majors.
The Dodgers won 2-1 against the 2024 Major League Baseball Washington Nationals at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., on Saturday (June 26).
After winning 4-1 on the 24th and 11-2 on the 25th, the Dodgers swept both games in Washington before traveling to Toronto on the 27th.
Starting on the mound, Yamamoto pitched six innings of four-hit, seven-strikeout, one-walk ball to improve to 2-1 on the season.
As Japanese media outlet SporNichi Annex wrote, “Yamamoto’s performance gave the Dodgers their fourth straight win. He utilized the strike zone well. He was caught in a pitch-clock violation with runners on first and second in the third inning, 바카라사이트 but he didn’t panic and kept the game scoreless.”
Yamamoto threw a 95.7-mile-per-hour four-seam fastball to first baseman CJ Abrams in the top of the first inning and Jesse Winker flied out to left field on a faster 96-mph offering. He struck out Joey Meneses with a 96.8-mile-per-hour fastball.
He used a variety of pitches to get the Nats offense going in the first inning, including a four-seam fastball, splitter, curveball, and cutter.
In the top of the second, Hernandez, the No. 4 hitter in the lineup, hit a solo shot to left to give the Dodgers the lead.
Yamamoto kept the inning scoreless. He struck out two. He gave up a walk to Joey Gallo with the bases loaded and then fanned Eddie Rosario on a four-seam fastball, curveball, and splitter to left field.
In the third, he allowed a double to Jacob Young with the bases loaded, but got Abrams to fly out to center and Winker to ground out to short to end the inning.
After a scoreless sixth inning, Yamamoto gave way to Alex Vecchia in the seventh with his team leading 1-0.
In the eighth, Daniel Hudson gave up a single to left-center to Meneses after the Dodgers had runners on first and third. 사설 토토사이트 But the one-run lead held until the end.
“Yamamoto returned to the bench, shook hands with manager Dave Roberts and high-fived Shohei Ohtani in celebration,” the media outlet said.