Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a complete-game gem Tuesday night, leading a 5-1 victory over the Brewers in Game 2 of the NLCS at American Family Field.
Brewers manager Pat Murphy might have nailed it before the series in proclaiming his team a decided underdog in this NLCS.
It’s not that Goliath — the defending World Series champions — is crushing the ball to all quarters, but the depth and dominance of the Dodgers rotation offers a brutal resistance.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a complete-game gem Tuesday night, leading a 5-1 victory over the Brewers in Game 2 of the NLCS at American Family Field, and yet it was only the second-best Dodgers pitching performance of this NLCS.
Yamamoto’s masterpiece (one earned run allowed on three hits over nine innings with seven strikeouts and one walk) followed Blake Snell’s brilliance a night earlier, when the left-hander faced the minimum 24 batters over eight frames and struck out 10.
“We’ve been the best in baseball at not chasing [pitches],” Murphy said. “These pitchers brought out the worst in us.”
Yamamoto’s complete game was the first in the postseason since Justin Verlander went nine innings for the Astros in Game 2 of the 2017 ALCS.
“I established my rhythm and then I dictated the tempo based off of the game,” Yamamoto said through an interpreter.
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