2025 World Series: Yamamoto, first with consecutive complete games in playoffs since 2016

The Japanese reached a new milestone during his first start of the 2025 World Series by completing his second consecutive complete game.

Los Angeles Dodgers They couldn’t ask for a better script for the second meeting of the World Series against the Toronto Blue Jays. Not only did they take the victory with a score of 5 runs to 1 to tie the series, but they did so without having to resort to their bullpen, which was punished in the first match.

Yoshinobu Yamamotostarter of the second game, pitched a complete nine-inning game in which he completely tied up Toronto’s batters with 105 pitches, of which 73 were strikes. The performance of Yamamoto It culminated with one earned run allowed and four hits allowed, in addition to eight strikeouts, without granting a walk, although he hit a batter.

The highlight of his outing is that it is his second consecutive complete game, a feat that has not been seen in the postseason since the 2015 and 2016 campaigns, when the Dominican Johnny Cueto he managed two complete starts in a row. The only one to throw three consecutive complete games in the same postseason has been Curt Schillingwho did it in 2001 with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The complete set of Yamamoto He was the first pitcher pitched by a visiting pitcher in the World Series from Cliff Lee with the Philadelphia Phillies in 2009. It is also the first for a pitcher from the Dodgers from Orel Hershiser in 1988. Furthermore, Yamamoto He became the first pitcher with two complete games in the same postseason without having thrown any in the regular season since Josh Beckett in 2003.

Finally, the complete set of Yamamoto is the first in the World Series from a pitcher whose team was down in the series since Curt Schillingthen with the Phillieswon Game 5 against the Blue Jays in 1993.