Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave the Dodgers a dose of optimism with his four-inning return Tuesday night, causing manager Dave Roberts to 'feel much better about the rotation.'
ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016.played one of their sloppiest defensive games of the season and watched it end on a robbed home run byBefore the Dodgers lost 6-3, dropping their division lead to 4½ games, Yamamoto limited the Cubs to only a run in four innings of work, during which he struck out eight batters. His fastball averaged more than 96 mph. His splitter and curveball looked devastating.
And then Yamamoto looked a lot like the player the Dodgers imagined when they awarded him a 12-year, $325 million contract this offseason, the largest ever for a starting pitcher. "I feel much better about the rotation tonight than I did 24 hours ago," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said."It's starting to turn in terms of getting back to the rotation that we had envisioned.". But Yamamoto struck out the side again when the Cubs' lineup turned over in the top of the third and ended his outing by getting former Dodgers prospectYamamoto, speaking through an interpreter, said,"Today's outing turned out much better than I expected.
He threw 59 pitches and should be stretched to about 75 pitches when he takes his turn Monday, with three starts left to prepare for the postseason. "We'll take this every start going forward -- fastball command, both sides of the plate, hits the low dart, the split down below that, stealing a strike with the breaking ball," Roberts said."It was really good."
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