Yoshinobu Yamamoto chewed up and spit out the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series, pitching a complete game for the Los Angeles Dodgers en route to a 5-1 win; Los Angeles now leads the series, 2-0. Simply put: the right-hander was sensational on Tuesday night.
Here’s Yamamoto’s dominant Game 2 start by the numbers.
1A: Jackson Chourio hit the first pitch that Yamamoto threw over the right-field wall, and it would be the only run that the Dodgers’ ace gave up.
1B: On that note, Chourio’s home run was also the only extra-base hit that the Brewers amassed off Yamamoto.
4A: Yamamoto surrendered a combined four baserunners (three hits and one walk).
4B: The Brewers left just four runners on base.
4C: Milwaukee had just four fly balls off Yamamoto.
6: While Yamamoto pitched a complete game for the Dodgers, the Brewers used six pitchers total: Freddy Peralta, Abner Uribe, Aaron Ashby, Tobias Myers, Robert Gasser and Grant Anderson.
7: Yamamoto posted seven strikeouts.
9: Yamamoto became the first Dodgers pitcher to go nine innings in a postseason game since José Lima did so in Game 3 of the 2004 NL Division Series, when he threw a complete-game shutout against the St. Louis Cardinals.
14: After surrendering a baserunner in each of the first five innings, Yamamoto recorded 14 consecutive outs to end the game.
16: Yamamoto induced 16 ground-ball outs.
32: Despite going the distance, Yamamoto faced just 32 batters over nine innings.
81: Of the 111 pitches that Yamamoto threw, 81 of them were strikes.
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