{"id":231304,"date":"2025-10-22T01:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231304\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T01:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:48:07","slug":"snell-gets-game-1-yamamoto-game-2-for-dodgers-in-toronto-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231304\/","title":{"rendered":"Snell gets Game 1, Yamamoto Game 2 for Dodgers in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES — Blake Snell<\/a> will start Game 1 of the World Series on Friday and Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a> will follow in Game 2 for the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> against the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>, manager Dave Roberts said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

It’s a repeat of the pitching order the Dodgers used for the first two games of their four-game sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> in the National League Championship Series.<\/p>\n

Snell had 10 strikeouts over eight scoreless innings in Game 1 on Oct. 13. He became the first Dodgers pitcher to complete eight innings while giving up one hit or fewer in a postseason game. Yamamoto pitched a three-hitter in Game 2 for the Dodgers’ first postseason complete game since 2004.<\/p>\n

Roberts said the team hasn’t decided on starters for Games 3 and 4, which will be played at Dodger Stadium, but indicated Tyler Glasnow<\/a> and Shohei Ohtani<\/a> could follow in that order.<\/p>\n

“I think we’re going to run the same rotation back, I think for sure for the first two,” he said.<\/p>\n

Ohtani had 10 strikeouts and hit three home runs in Game 4 to clinch a second straight trip to the World Series. Ohtani was selected MVP of the NLCS.<\/p>\n

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Dodgers starters combined for 35 strikeouts in the NLCS. Snell, Yamamoto, Glasnow and Ohtani posted a 0.63 ERA against the Brewers, with two earned runs in 28\u2154 innings.<\/p>\n

Roberts said the bullpen lineup was still being discussed, with the Blue Jays’ lineup featuring some right-handed power hitters that the Dodgers didn’t have to contend with previously.<\/p>\n

“There’s one spot that we could potentially kind of debate, and will continue to debate,” Roberts said. “Outside of that one spot, it’s probably going to look exactly the same.”<\/p>\n

Reliever Tanner Scott<\/a> is eligible for the World Series roster after being removed from the NL Division Series roster. He had an emergency surgical procedure and said he was feeling good now.<\/p>\n

“It’s just kind of trying to get a grasp on the doctors giving him the full kind of green light, the go-ahead,” Roberts said. “I know that he’s anxious, which is a good thing, but fortunately, we get to see for a couple more days how he responds to throwing and bullpens and things like that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES — Blake Snell will start Game 1 of the World Series on Friday and Yoshinobu Yamamoto…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-231304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}