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The Dodgers got a gem from starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto — 7 innings, 1 run, 10 strikeouts — and beat the Braves 3-1 in Game 3 of the NLDS (Oct. 6, Atlanta). That puts them up 2-1 in the series, one win away from advancing. The offense struck first in the fourth inning on a two-run homer from Kiké Hernández and a solo shot from Freddie Freeman, and Yamamoto made that lead hold up. Meanwhile, Shohei Ohtani, batting fifth, went 0-for-2 with a walk and couldn’t find his timing at the plate — threads lit up with both praise for Yamamoto’s outing and chatter about Ohtani’s recent slump.
[MLB] Yamamoto dazzles with 7 innings, 1 run, 10 Ks as Dodgers move to the brink of advancing — Ohtani goes 0-for-2 with a walk
NLDS Game 3 [Dodgers 3-1 Braves], Atlanta / Truist Park, Oct. 6 (Oct. 7 JST)
The Dodgers headed into Game 3 of the NLDS on the road in Atlanta tied 1-1. Early on they couldn’t cash in against Braves starter Chris Sale, but a two-run homer from Kiké Hernández and a solo shot from Freddie Freeman in the fourth put them up 3-0, and starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto made that lead stand with 7 innings of 1-run ball.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Hope he can build on this and heat up from here.
Where, exactly? lol
What's with that gun-shy, flailing swing — looks like he's doing the doggy paddle lol
[LAD] Yoshinobu Yamamoto Support Thread part106
https://lavender.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/mlb/1791323010/
Average people don't even know who Yamamoto is to begin with.
maybe he should switch careers to soccer, the ball's bigger there.
Shohei is High-quality goat…
without it, he could pitch his heart out and still lose lol
the Dodgers advancing is basically a lock now.
Tomorrow's Glasnow's start, so there's still a puncher's chance.
Meanwhile there's "Big Tako" (a snide nickname for Ohtani, playing on "octopus"), the saintly image the trash media built up, wasting an ABS robo-ump challenge on an 0-3 count and blowing it lol
That was lame, Ohtani — everyone was cracking up at him.
Meanwhile Muncy saved the ABS challenge for Díaz.
don't you dare go anywhere else.
I think that's just because you didn't know about him.
Baseball fans all knew he was amazing,
it's just that he was with Orix, so his name recognition outside that circle wasn't great.
I thought that was disrespectful to Tatsukawa,
but then again Tatsukawa himself used to appeal for hit-by-pitches even when the ball clearly missed him, so maybe it's fitting lol
that was close, phew.
the gap in their postseason contributions is night and day.
I feel like he once struck out 10 and hit 3 homers in the postseason though
Was it this one? That dominant stretch where even Freeman was holding his head in his hands was so satisfying to watch…
That's ridiculously clutch
Guys like Skubal or Snell haven't won nearly that much in the playoffs.
The Dodgers ("Dodger-kasu," a mocking nickname for the team) were always terrible in the playoffs to begin with —
they're probably being carried a lot by Ohtani and Yamamoto.
Playoff stats don't count toward Cy Young voting, so probably not.
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★Dodgers 2026 Postseason Results
●NLDS "LAD vs Atlanta Braves"
Game 1 Oct 4 W LAD 5-3 AB *Ohtani 1 hit
Game 2 Oct 5 L LAD 2-3 AB *Ohtani 1 hit
Game 3 Oct 7 W LAD 3-1 AB *Ohtani 1 walk, Yamamoto wins, 7 IP
Game 4 Oct 8
●NLCS
Game 1 Oct 11
Sasaki's doing his best too, you know.
Doesn't look like there'll be anything exciting in baseball for a while.
No way anyone's ever getting hyped for that empty-stadium, tax-subsidized league.
Can't stand watching that "ball-kicking" sport (soccer) — way too boring.
Can't help but drag soccer into every single thread — that soccer inferiority complex runs deep, huh.
Background and Talking Points
This was Game 3 of the NLDS. The Dodgers had dropped Game 2 and headed into Atlanta tied 1-1. Yamamoto went toe-to-toe with the Braves’ ace Chris Sale and reversed the result from their last meeting — where Yamamoto had come out on the losing end — by holding the Braves to 1 run over 7 innings. The “10 wins, 1 loss across his postseason career” figure mentioned in the thread, if accurate, is a striking stat, but it’s worth noting that Cy Young voting is based solely on regular-season performance, not postseason results. As for Ohtani, he showed some grit by drawing the walk that set up the fourth-inning scoring, but he didn’t look sharp at the plate overall, and the thread’s comments were a mix of praise and criticism of his slump. Note that replies making personal attacks on Ohtani’s appearance or character have been excluded from this article.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geisokuho+) thread “[MLB] Yamamoto dazzles with 7 innings, 1 run, 10 Ks — Dodgers one win from advancing in NLDS! Ohtani, batting 5th, goes 0-for-2 with a walk.”
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