The switch makes Yoshinobu Yamamoto available for a potential Game 5 on an extra day of rest as he’s had for every outing this season, with Andrew Friedman saying the moves are about creating flexi…
Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto throws in the outfield during a workout on Thursday at Dodger Stadium. Yamamoto will now start Game 1 of the best-of-five National League Division Series against the San Diego Padres on Saturday night.
The move creates more “options” for a potential winner-take-all Game 5, Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman explained during Thursday’s workout at Dodger Stadium.– on fewer than five days of rest all season, keeping his schedule as close to the once-a-week rotation he was familiar with in Japan. If he started Game 2, he would be on four days of rest for a Game 5.
Friedman would not rule out the possibility of Yamamoto – who went 7-2 with a 3.00 ERA in 18 starts this season – pitching on four days of rest at some point during the postseason. “To go into a hostile environment like that and see him elevate his game – we talked about it at the time, that’s not an easy thing to do, especially the first time,” Friedman said. “The one thing that we feel really confident about is the moment is not going to affect him. He’s going to take it in and feed on that adrenaline and do what he does.”. In his four September starts after returning, he pitched into the fifth inning just once and allowed seven runs on 16 hits in 16 innings overall.
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