Billing could not have been greater. Dodgers vs giants. Yoshinobu Yamamoto against Logan Webb. One of the oldest rivalries in the game, opposing what was supposed to be two of the best launchers in the game.
Friday evening, at the Dodger Stadium, however, only one right -handed AS appeared.
During the first meeting of the season between the Dodgers and the Giants, Webb did its thing, abandoning only two points on two strokes in seven spectacular rounds.
In front of him, Yamamoto was not a match, wading in the start of five rounds and 4 innings that sent the Dodgers to a 6-2 defeat-leaving the teams to the top of the West National League with records of 41-29 identical to the 70-game brand.
The evening was a study on the excellence of pitching (or, in the case of Yamamoto, a lack of it); To remind you that, as well as Yamamoto has become in his second season of major league, there are levels to his talent which he has not yet reached.
When webb obtained soft contact and fast outings, needing only 98 locations to finish its seventh outing in seven-rounds of the season, Yamamoto worked by the counting of strikers and long at-bats, emitting a career summit of five walks while finding the typing area on only 56 of its 102 locations.
When webb has limited traffic and escaped rare damage, only abandoning two sure strokes while walking only three strikers, Yamamoto worked through self-inflicted problems; No worse than when he traveled the bases loaded in the third, before giving up a large slam destroyed in Casey Schmitt.
Casey Schmitt de San Francisco, on the right, famous with Wilmer Flores, Center, and Mike Yastrzemski after hitting a big slam in the third round on Friday.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Above all, where webb played the role of the AS of the staff of a competitive team, reducing its average achieved to 2.58 (fifth best of the national league), Yamamoto has weakened in a way that has become uncomfortably familiar lately, its time going to 2.64 despite an almost flawless opening month.
During his first seven departures, Yamamoto was 4-2 with an MPM of 0.90, a whip of 0.925 and a single match in which he even abandoned two deserved points.
“Right now, he is launching as the best launcher in the world,” said receiver Will Smith on May 2, after Yamamoto launched six lanches of laundering against the Braves of Atlanta.
Since then, Yamamoto has been on another planet – and not a good one.
During his last seven outings, the 26-year-old Japanese star has a 2-3 sheet with a 4.46 MPM. During this period, he has more than five rounds (two) than seven complete heats (one). He abandoned three or more points four times. And Friday was the second in which he was marked five times, equaling his MLB career summit.
The most coherent problem during this crisis: poor order.
Yamamoto walked 17 strikers in its last 38 rounds. And when he does not publish freezing free, he gets into bad accounts, as when Willy Adames opened the scoring on Friday by taking ahead of 2 and 0 and hitting a quick ball down for the right for a solo home run.
Another potential factor in the recent difficulties of Yamamoto: it was forced to rest less between departures.
During his first seven departures, Yamamoto launched at least six days of rest – reflecting the calendar once a week he had in Japan.
Since then, however, each of their outings has only been five days of rest.
Yamamoto minimized this factor in the past. And last year, he actually had slightly better figures over five days of rest (2.97 ERA in 11 departures) than six (3.07 ERA in departures).
However, for a Dodgers staff who were in digital disadvantage – leaving the club without the luxury of starting Yamamoto only once a week – it was a marked department, coming at a time when their three -game advance in a competitive NL West quickly evaporated in the middle of an exhausting section of the schedule.
Dodgers programming, of course, did not help Yamamoto either.
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After having marked an Andy Pages Fly Pages sacrifice in the second, when a return home beaten Smith, but was abandoned by the receiver of the Giants Andrew Knizner while trying to apply a label, the only other production of the team against Webb came via Teoscar Hernández, who aligned the first blow of the Dodgers in the Seventh before the home for a second game on a second game Seventh.
Until then, however, webb had already put the game on the ice, becoming the last launcher leaving this month to manage the star range of the Dodgers (the opposing starters have an MPM of 2.43 against the Dodgers in June and have an average of almost six rounds per departure).
This made the Yamamoto clunker all the more expensive, highlighting a prolonged production slide which continues to afflict the only healthy Ace of the team.
