Los Angeles Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto was named an MLB All-Star for the first time on Sunday.
On Monday, he posted his worst outing of the season.
The Milwaukee Brewers chased Yamamoto two outs into his start while tagging him with five runs — three of them earned — during an entire run through the order.
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When leadoff hitter Sal Frelick took the plate for the second time in the inning, Yamamoto’s day was done. Reliever Jack Dreyer took over to record the final out of the first as the Brewers held a 5-0 lead.
When his day was done, Yamamoto had allowed four hits, one home run and two walks. A seventh Brewers baserunner reached on a throwing error by Mookie Betts that allowed the last two runs of the inning to score.
Yamamoto threw 41 pitches while recording two outs, 25 of them for strikes. His season-long ERA spiked from 2.51 to 2.77.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto reacts to being pulled from the shortest outing of his MLB career. (Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)
(Patrick McDermott via Getty Images)
Rough start steamrolls Yamamoto
The outing started ominously for Yamamoto as he allowed a leadoff double to Frelick then walked William Contreras to put runners on first and second with no outs. But he induced outs from Jackson Chourio and Christian Yelich to give himself a chance to get out of the inning unscathed.
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Andrew Vaughn did not allow that to happen. In his first Brewers at-bat since arriving via June 13th trade from the Chicago White Sox, Vaughn launched a three-run home run. Yamamoto left a high slider hanging over the middle of the plate on a 2-2 count, and Vaughn sent it deep over the left-centerfield wall.
Vaughn had previously spent his time with the Brewers in the minors, but made good on his first at-bat back in the majors after Milwaukee called him up to replace the injured Rhys Hoskins (sprained thumb) on the roster.
Things went from bad to worse from there for Yamamoto. He allowed a single to Isaac Collins then walked Brice Turan to again put runners on first and second. He appeared to have the third out of the inning secured on a Caleb Durbin ground ball. But Betts one-hopped a throw to first base that Freddie Freeman couldn’t handle.
Durbin reached safely on an error, and Collins scored from second.
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Andruw Monasterio then plated Turan with a single from the nine hole, and Yamamoto’s day was done. Dreyer mercifully induced a pop-up from Frelick to end the inning after taking over on the mound.
In the end, it was the shortest outing of Yamamoto’s season-plus MLB career — and arguably his worst.
The good news for Yamamoto is that this was very much an outlier. A return to All-Star form should be expected.
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