Yoshinobu Yamamoto was DEALING in his first start of 2025 😤 | 山本由伸ハイライト

Here is the 26 year old from Bizen Japan Yoshinobu Yamamoto in his second season with the Dodgers the opening day starter back in his home country Takes a sting out of it bounce back to Yamamoto thought about going to second settles for the out at first two gone and half in the scoring position The fastball is lifted to center field Randy Pahez puts it away Pitches around the leadoff walk after an inning in Tokyo no score You've got a different mound. You've got a different ball. You've got travel over a much wider stretch Shaw goes up the middle Edmund position well for the first out You mentioned it. He said this is the best experience he's had Bouncing ball to second it would be tough to turn to with his speed They go to first and get the sure thing and a scoring position goes Swanson to God in the second At the knees to get him looking Cracks his bat again. He's ruined two of his bats Yeah, and we're seeing you know rookies going through it, too It's just it's it's a hard transition period but you know our guys know how to help them get through it Gosh, that's such a hard pitch to hit leaning on it That's a great hitter right there that he gets to roll over for the second out to third goes half Three two Back to the splitter. Yeah, I had to The fifth one came Through a couple other breaking pitches in there Back to the splitter to finish him off second K for Yamamoto I mean, I know you can't throw that every single pitch, you know We were just talking with Kersh about it, but if I am throwing anything else, I I'm throwing it for a ball Just just to set up just to go back to this pitch Just it I don't want to throw six or seven in a row. Let me throw something off the plate I don't want to give them an opportunity to hit the fastball or the curveball Swing and a miss he strikes out Swanson back-to-back K's to open the fourth as a cub fan growing up I noticed you didn't say Cardinal closer Bruce Cubs won Dodgers nothing last of the fourth Yamamoto to Pete Crowe Armstrong slaps a ground ball up the middle Rojas is there and a one two, three fourth inning first clean inning of the game for Yamamoto Dodgers looking for some offense Yamamoto back out there for the fifth pitching with the lead for the first time It's Miguel Amaya on a bounce to short Miguel Rojas Always fun to watch Rojas play defense one pitch one out for Yamamoto And he has leaned on that splitter today like never before Almost half his pitches have been splitters. That's by far the highest percentage of his career Yeah last year about 40% swing and miss rate tonight almost 50% and you look at both of these pitchers The effectiveness of the splitter 15 swing and misses and if you notice middle of the plate and look at that about that Wow, where you put it Kiki Hernandez his position in the hole is able to pluck that one two outs on two pitches Two nice defensive plays by the Dodgers and again as you mentioned TK cat-like reflexes Boom staying down there and then hustling over So another payoff coming here And a one two three fifth inning pinpoint with the fastball from Yoshinobu Yamamoto