Dodgers Star Displays Bizarre Warm-Up Routine, Fans Lose It<\/p>\n
If you tuned into Dodgers vs. Brewers expecting just a baseball game<\/a>, you might\u2019ve thought you accidentally switched to a live Cirque du Soleil performance when Yoshinobu Yamamoto showed up for warmups.<\/p>\n Yamamoto\u2019s Wild Routine Has Fans Losing It The Dodgers\u2019 Japanese ace<\/a>, who\u2019s set to start Game 2 of the NLCS, decided to throw in a little pregame gymnastics routine before Game 1 \u2014 and let me tell you, it was something. Caught on Spectrum SportsNet, Yamamoto dropped into a full-on bridge stretch (yes, like the one your high school cheerleading squad did), then kicked his feet up onto the wall and climbed it. And if that wasn\u2019t enough to make you raise your eyebrows and spill your soda, he cartwheeled off the wall like a man auditioning for Tokyo 2028.<\/p>\n Fans were baffled, amused, and frankly, impressed. One viewer quipped, \u201cBro is in the wrong sport.\u201d Another went full stand-up: \u201cIf you don\u2019t take yo a** to Cirque Ole lmao.\u201d And the hits kept coming: \u201cI\u2019ll nominate him for a slot on the Japanese gymnastics team,\u201d one fan offered.<\/p>\n Dodgers Lock Down Game 1 Without Their Star Starter<\/p>\n But while Yamamoto was busy defying gravity, his teammates were busy locking things down. The Dodgers scraped out a tight 2-1 win in Game 1, thanks to some absolutely dominant pitching. Blake Snell? He was lights out \u2014 eight scoreless innings, 10 strikeouts, didn\u2019t even blink. Then Roki Sasaki and Blake Treinen came in and closed it out like cold-blooded assassins.<\/p>\n Freddie Freeman reminded everyone why he\u2019s still one of the most consistent bats in the league, going deep in the sixth and ripping a double in the eighth to give LA the offensive edge they needed.<\/p>\n Redemption Arc Incoming for Game 2?<\/p>\n Now, all eyes turn to Yamamoto. He didn\u2019t pitch in the opener, but he\u2019s on deck for Game 2<\/a> \u2014 and he\u2019s got some unfinished business. His last outing against Milwaukee was brutal. He gave up five runs (three earned) in less than an inning back in July. Not the kind of memory you want haunting you in October.<\/p>\n But this is postseason baseball \u2014 where yesterday\u2019s disaster becomes today\u2019s highlight reel. And if Yamamoto brings even half the flair to the mound that he did to the wall, we might just be in for a show.<\/p>\n Flips, fire, and maybe a few strikeouts. Let\u2019s see what the man\u2019s really got.<\/p>\n The post Dodgers Star Displays Bizarre Warm-Up Routine, Fans Lose It<\/a> first appeared on ATL Braves Country<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dodgers Star Displays Bizarre Warm-Up Routine, Fans Lose It If you tuned into Dodgers vs. Brewers expecting just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[40204,191,46,4166,5,192,5965,54257,54258,1358,4,5839],"class_list":{"0":"post-381512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atl-braves-country","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-braves","11":"tag-atlantabraves","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-breaking-news","15":"tag-dodgers-star-displays-bizarre-warm-up-routine","16":"tag-fans-lose-it","17":"tag-local-news","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-newsbreak"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115378894231589014","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u00a9 Benny Sieu-Imagn Images <\/p>\n