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On October 12 local time (October 13 Japan time), the Dodgers fell 7-4 to the Brewers in Game 2 of the NL Championship Series, dropping to 0-2 in the series. Starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto was pulled after his shortest outing of the season, with manager Dave Roberts explaining it was “very unusual” and that “he wasn’t quite himself.” Yamamoto, who had gone 8-1 this postseason, took his second loss of the playoffs in this game. On 5ch, reactions split between criticism of the early pitching change and criticism of catcher Will Smith for not challenging close pitches.
Manager Dave Roberts can’t hide his shock at Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s shortest outing of the season: “Very unusual,” “He wasn’t quite himself”… Dodgers suffer painful back-to-back losses to Brewers
◆MLB NL Championship Series Game 2: Brewers 7, Dodgers 4 (October 12, American Family Field, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
The NL West champion Dodgers dropped a seesaw battle on the road to the Brewers in Game 2 of the NL Championship Series on October 12 (October 13 Japan time), falling to 0-2 in the series. They now face a tough road toward becoming the first NL team in history to win three straight World Series titles.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here
What people said
LOL
Anyone can see Roberts botched that pitching change
The real culprits are Roberts, Smith, and that 'Boobicchi' guy
Every single Japanese player on this team flamed out.
The Dodgers are finished.
meaning it was really just the usual bullpen regulars getting hit afterward.
And sure enough, they give up the run.
so the moment you have a catcher who won't use ABS challenges, you should've benched Smith on the spot.
He's batting .000 without a single hit — why is he even still playing?
declared it a lost game on their own,
brought in some mystery pitcher they're calling 'Boobicchi,'
and he just got hit like normal.
That happened twice in a row.
Smith was never great defensively, but his bat was good enough to make him the starting catcher.
But at .000 right now, he's at a level where he shouldn't even be in the lineup.
And didn't they end up leaving 2 ABS challenges unused today anyway?
Makes zero sense.
This isn't Formula 1 where a team sabotages its own Japanese driver — cut that stuff out.
Yamamoto was 8-1 this postseason.
Today makes it loss number two.
why didn't Yamamoto use the ABS challenge himself?
Is that some uniquely Japanese timidness —
deferring to the catcher's judgment?
Because on the Dodgers, the catcher — Smith — has final say on that.
If they drop Game 3 too, that sets up the flag for an Ohtani grand slam sparking four straight Dodgers wins.
That time it was thanks to Kintetsu's Kato running his mouth.
I'd love for someone on the Brewers to go say the Dodgers are even worse than the Pirates or the Rockies.
In the end, both the questionable call in the 1st and the one in the 3rd would've been strikes on review (both came on 2-strike counts, so both would've been strikeouts).
Facing a team that patiently worked pitches and ground it out trying to drag Yamamoto out early, with an umpire who kept making tight calls against him on borderline pitches — and then even Will Smith, who's supposed to be on his side, skipped every single challenge. You've got to feel for Yamamoto.
Couldn't agree more.
Background and Key Points of This Topic
The backdrop to this story is that the Dodgers are fighting through the playoffs chasing a third straight World Series title. The weight of what would be an unprecedented three-peat for an NL team makes the 0-2 hole they’re now in sting even more. Where opinion split on the thread was over where to pin the blame for the loss: criticism of manager Dave Roberts for the early pitching change, criticism of catcher Will Smith for not challenging close calls, and comments pointing to fatigue or an off night for Yamamoto himself all existed side by side. The “ABS” mentioned in the article is the challenge system that lets teams request an automated review of close ball-strike calls, introduced this postseason, and differing views on how that system should have been used are what split opinion between blaming the manager and blaming the catcher. The posts alone don’t capture the full picture — things like individual players’ fatigue levels over the course of the whole game — so it’s worth keeping in mind that this is just a slice of the reaction on 5ch.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Geisoku+) thread “[MLB] Manager Roberts can’t hide his shock at Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s shortest outing of the season: “Very unusual,” “He wasn’t quite himself”.”
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