{"id":544659,"date":"2026-03-16T19:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544659\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T19:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:35:08","slug":"world-series-mvp-yoshinobu-yamamoto-will-start-the-season-opener-for-the-dodgers-at-home-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544659\/","title":{"rendered":"World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto will start the season opener for the Dodgers at home | MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/yoshinobu-yamamoto-dodgers-mvp-5c86d71ebfd8544a75a6bc526df9b8c9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a> will start another season opener for the Los Angeles Dodgers, just like he did last year when they went on to win their second consecutive championship.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Dave Roberts told reporters at spring training Monday that Yamamoto will start the March 26 opener at home against Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Yamamoto was the first and last pitcher used by the Dodgers last season, when he got the final eight outs in their 11-inning World Series Game 7 clincher at Toronto. He also won both of his World Series starts, a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/world-series-dodgers-blue-jays-score-yamamoto-5d87e18ff100f1c77e2f550a21b0e22c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">complete game in Game 2<\/a> and then threw 96 pitches over six innings in Game 6, a night before throwing 34 pitches to close out the series.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers began last season in Tokyo, with Yamamoto allowing one run over five innings in his home country in a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/dodgers-cubs-tokyo-score-a508bd094c3b7540bae6d6e90832d5c0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4-1 win over the Chicago Cubs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He pitched for Japan in the World Baseball Classic, giving up a leadoff home run to Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. in an <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/japan-venezuela-score-wbc-ohtani-47327f324e626229388dfce8cf3d4591\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">8-5 quarterfinal loss to Venezuela<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old right-hander is going into the third season of his record $325 million, 12-year contract for a pitcher. He is 19-10 with a 2.66 ERA in 48 regular-season starts for the Dodgers, and 7-0 with a 2.25 ERA in 10 playoff games (nine starts).<\/p>\n<p>Only three other pitchers have won Games 6 and 7 of the same World Series: Randy Johnson in 2001, Harry Brecheen in 1946 and Ray Kremer in 1925.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) \u2014 World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto will start another season opener for the Los Angeles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,4034,269778,591,6784,76512,85],"class_list":["post-544659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-dodgers-yamamoto-season-opener","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mlb-world-series","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544659","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=544659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}