#MLBVideos: Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s LEGENDARY 2025 Postseason for the Dodgers (World Series MVP) | 山本由伸ハイライト

Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s LEGENDARY 2025 Postseason for the Dodgers (World Series MVP) | 山本由伸ハイライト

He is one of the best pitchers in the National League. That’s who he is. 27 years old. And here are the numbers. A 249 erra. Just a tick under 174 innings. Top 10 in strikeout rate in the majors. Top 10 in ground ball rate in the majors. And we’ll see how he performs here tonight. He finished the year with 17 and a3 scoreless innings. A swing and a miss. Struck him out. Yamamoto locks up de la Cruz. Swing and a miss. Struck him out. Not a heater at 96 and strikeout number two for Yamamoto. Ability to control the zone up and down with so many different looks. And this is one where he goes with the elevated fast ball anticipating the splitter. Swing and a miss. Yamamoto gets the strike out. And one, two, three go the Reds. The right-hander bounces back. Swing and a miss. Struck him out. Then Yamamoto has struck out four swing and a miss and a curve ball gets strikeout number five. The one two is cut on and foul tipped into the mid of Ror Vet and he struck him out. Swing and a miss. He struck him out. Yamamoto. Swing and a miss. He struck him out. Yoshov Yamamoto escapes a bases loaded. No out jam. And the Reds leave the sacks packed. Dodgers lead 72. Breaking ball. Outside corner. Ring them up. And it is strikeout number nine for Yoshobu Yamamoto. Yoshobu Yamamoto is going for the Dodgers. He has been great all season. Went to the post 30 times and all-star. He was their most consistent starter all year long. But he lost his last start in the postseason and had a tough start. here in July against the Brewers. One and two to Terra. Bouncing ball and a tough play. Nice pick by Muny. Good hands. Max my Will Smith. Two of the best. Freddy Freeman knocks it down. Finds it and finds Yamamoto covering first for the out. Broken bat. Yell a little roller over to Muny and he’ll make the play. Three ground ball out. Yamamoto settles in and called. Strike three. Stuck the fast ball right by him. And the first strike out for Yamamoto as Cheerio cuts and misses and Yamamoto wipes him out. Big fast ball upstairs for Yamamoto as he strikes out. Christian Yelich led that league and wins and he got him. Back to the splinter he goes and he strikes out Caleb Urban. Inning is over. Strands a runner at first. Two to one Dodgers. One ball, two strikes. Ortiz takes off and the pitch is a called strike three. No throw needed. Yamamono drops a big curve on Bryce Terang. The inning is over. Another one, two and Vaughn right to Monty soft liner in a one, two, three inning. Yoshi Yamamoto dialed in efficient. Bowers roll over ground ball. Tommy Edmond scoops it, makes the play and Yamamoto carries on, puts up another zero. He’s retired eight straight and a called strike three right on the edge. Impeccable command all night long. Yamamoto with his sixth strikeout. First ball swinging. Muny’s got it. Two outs. On the ground. Edmond backhands it and makes the play and Yamamoto breezes through the eighth. Will he come back out for the ninth? What a performance. Backto back. Brilliant starts. Two and two and Contraras skies one to center. Dean settles under it. And there is out number one. That was a rare hanging breaking ball there from Yamamoto, but Contrera still couldn’t handle it. Was ready for the postseason. There’s a chopper to Yamamoto. He’s got it. And the Dodgers are an out away from a two nothing advantage. And Yamamoto is an out away from a complete game gem. Here he comes the O2 and a swing and a miss. And Yoshi Yamamoto with his crown jewel as a Dodger. It is a complete game. He goes the distance and the Dodgers win game two by a score of five to one. And Yamamoto stands tall on this night in Milwaukee. Yoshinobu Yamamoto is second in the National League behind Paul Skins with a 249 during the regular season and after his complete game against the Brewers 183 in the postseason. Yeah, good luck trying to eliminate one of these pitchers. They’re all good and the Blue Jays have never seen him really. Another 2-2 curve gets him swinging. Just the fourth strike out of the playoffs of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to first and caught by Freeman on the fly. Both runners back to the bat and a chance for Yamamoto to get out of this unscathed. There it goes. It’s a curve that falls in for strike three and Vo like a house by the side of the road watches it and the Jays watch a scoring opportunity in this first inning slip through their fingertips. Strike three called on Barger. Fast ball in there at the knees. Shot to short. Bets down to get it to his feet into first in time. Mookie Betts. What a transformation from right field to short and one of the best in the game defensively. He helps his buddy over at first. Down this time on the high fast ball. Fourth K for Yamamoto. [Applause] Easy one for Freddy Freeman. And that’ll do it for the Blue Jays in the third. But they’ve tied it up on a sack fly from Kirk. Bouncing ball to short from Mookie Bats. And Yamamoto finally has a clean inning. Tied at one to the fifth. Bounce back to him. Yamamoto’s got it. Takes his time. Throws to first and ends the inning. It’s another one, two, three inning. Yamamoto’s gotten his last six outs on 14 pitches. The curve gets him to wave and miss. Yoshi Nou Yamamoto with his fifth strike out of the game against this deadly Toronto offense. Shadow center bats is there. Three up, three down again. That’s 11 in a row retired by Yamamoto to bats at short. Backhand stab. Lobs it across and three ground ball outs. Yamamoto with 14 in a row retired. Sniffing it again. Sniffing the finish line. fouled into the glove. Strike three. Strikes out Springer with a fast ball. That thing blazing to the top of the zone. Yamamoto’s seven. His one, two to Lucas. Is it fast for the knees to get him looking? He strikes out the side in the eighth. Something special brewing here for Yoshu Yamamoto. Try to join the likes of Oral Hershiser to deal backto-back complete game wins in the postseason. Curve off the end of the bat. Freeman to first. One away in the ninth. Kirk sends a line drive to center field. Justin Dean is there. Two gone in the ninth. Well, I’ve mentioned it several times. It would have been almost a decade since anybody had pitched a complete game in the postseason. Yamamoto an out away from doing it backto back starts. The one-two pitch popped up left side. Yamamoto goes the distance again. World Series mastery. Yoshi Nou Yamamoto, game two of the World Series against the Blue Jays, has thrown a complete game, retiring the final 20 that he faces to the 27year-old from Bezen, Japan, taking the ball for the Dodgers. The first guy in a quarter century to back-to-back complete games in the postseason. Ground ball. Muny with another chance. This time he starts a double play. Inning in the books in game six. He’s down on strikes and Yamamoto’s got his first K to Kirk with a 3-2. High pop fly to right center field. Tasker Hernandez or Tommy Edmond. It would be Tommy Edmond to wrap up a one two3 second. Yamamoto strikes him out on three pitches for Matt unable to advance the runner. That was a 92 mph splitter that just on the outside part of the plate m flies one the other way. Kika Hernandez goes back out. He’s got room and ends the inning. Straight three call this time. A splitter to the knees to get him. Baro chops it to second. Rojos to second one over to first. The second double play of the game for Yamamoto. Got him. Tied him up with that splitter for strike three, but it took him nine pitches. Fly to center field. Tommy Edmonds going back and no worse for the wear. The one-two pitch. He struck him out. Yamamoto gets out of the first jam of the ball game with a strike out of Varo and keeps the lead 3 to one. Yoshi Nou Yamamoto puts his name with Grover Cleveland Alexander in 1926 and Randy Johnson in 2001. One day after pitching game six in in relief in game seven. Bases loaded, two outs. The pitch laments it in the air left field. Kik Hernandez running back. It’s in the gap. It is on the track. They converge. Pas reaches up and makes the catch as he crashes into Kik. A Yamamoto miracle in the ninth. Strike three swinging sits him down with the splitter. Two gone in the 10. Boy, he came back from being down three balls and no strikes. Comes back and gets the strike out. Here’s his one-1 pitch in the air to right field. No big deal for Teasu Hernandez in game seven. Moves along to the 11th inning. Stays on the corners. One out. The Dodgers lead by one. Broken back. Ground ball. Betts has it. Steps on the bag. The throw to first. Double play from backs against the wall to backto back. The Dodgers cement their dynasty. They win game seven in extra innings. 54 the final. They mob Yamamoto on the left side of the mound. Well, they’re already doing it for me. It’s time for the Willie Maze MVP trophy presented by Chevrolet. Yeah, that’s it. Yoshito Yamamoto, the MVP of the World Series. It’s all yours.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s dominant 2025 Postseason for the Los Angeles Dodgers culminated in him being named the second-ever Japanese-born World Series MVP.

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