GLENDALE, Ariz.–World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto\u00a0will 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
Manager Dave Roberts told reporters at spring training Monday that Yamamoto will start the March 26 opener at home against Arizona.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0complete game in Game 2\u00a0and then threw 96 pitches over six innings in Game 6, a night before throwing 34 pitches to close out the series.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers began last season in Tokyo, with Yamamoto allowing one run over five innings in his home country in a\u00a04-1 win over the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n
He pitched for Japan in the World Baseball Classic, giving up a leadoff home run to Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. in an\u00a08-5 quarterfinal loss to Venezuela.<\/p>\n
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
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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GLENDALE, Ariz.–World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto\u00a0will start another season opener for the Los Angeles Dodgers, just like he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[78971,64,63,941,591,44,85],"class_list":["post-545683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-asahi-shimbun","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-japan","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545683","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=545683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}