{"id":241169,"date":"2025-10-26T03:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T03:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/241169\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T03:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T03:15:07","slug":"yamamoto-tosses-2nd-consecutive-complete-game-as-dodgers-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/241169\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamamoto tosses 2nd consecutive complete game as Dodgers win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"8f8c5b6b-ec0b-39fe-bf1d-871f55b0e5e6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4872587\/yoshinobu-yamamoto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a> pitched a four-hitter for his second consecutive complete game, the first in the World Series since 2015, and the defending champion <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"fb7cf413-5156-9fc2-abe0-2273b89f70db\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/lad\/los-angeles-dodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> beat the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"0151aed9-9f11-ceae-195d-180ca603b64a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/game\/_\/gameId\/401809298\/dodgers-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">5-1<\/a> on Saturday night to tie their best-of-seven matchup at one game apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a three-hitter against Milwaukee in the National League Championship Series that was the first postseason complete game since 2017, Yamamoto retired his final 20 batters in the first complete game in the Series since Kansas City&#8217;s Johnny Cueto against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"d08426cc-bf13-5d7b-5217-6d4662019bc6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nym\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a> in Game 2 of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>No pitcher had thrown consecutive complete games in the postseason since Arizona ace Curt Schilling, who tossed three in a row in the 2001 NL Division Series and NLCS.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"7e560f9f-b486-f5f1-20a4-7699c1338287\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/38309\/will-smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Smith<\/a> had three RBIs for the Dodgers, breaking a 1-all tie with a seventh-inning home run off <a data-player-guid=\"fa9b8697-bf70-398f-a44f-f2ea673d85ab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32667\/kevin-gausman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Gausman<\/a>, who had retired 17 batters in a row. <a data-player-guid=\"3eddd863-7043-0c8d-28cd-6db2191f5714\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33303\/max-muncy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Muncy<\/a> added another solo homer later in the inning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO &#8212; Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a four-hitter for his second consecutive complete game, the first in the World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-241169","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\/241169","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=241169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}