The Los Angeles Dodgers expect to see the typical Yoshinobu Yamamoto resurface on Saturday when their road series against the Cardinals of San Luis continue.
Yamamoto (6-4, 2.39 era) Tokt a 7-3 loss against New Yorkes on Sunday, breaking its chain of 11 openings of five or more tickets. They were allowed four races in seven hits and three walks in 3 2/3 tickets.
He will seek to recover in the average game of a three -game game. The cardinals won the first 5-0 game on Friday.
The Dodgers receiver, Will Smith, said about Yamamotos’s rough departure against the Yankees: “Just a little out of place. The execution was not like Yoshi. Not getting one, not keeping the boys with two attacks. It happens and happens and I like it.” ”
Los Angeles manager, Dave Roberts, took Yamamoto out of that game to be able to press the Restart button.
“He was not acute with any of his releases. Really little caverist,” Roberts said after the game. “Just around that brand of 90 releases through four tickets. There is simply much benefit to continue pushing it there. He certainly didn’t feel good today. You just have to wash this.”
In his only career, against the cardinals, Yamamoto launched five goals without two hits in March 2024. He hit five batters and did not walk any.
Yamamoto will face an alignment of St. Louis anchored by the first Baseman Willson Contreras, who stalked a homer on Friday night to extend his batting streak to seven games. It has 9 of 26 (.346).
“His desire to win and the intensity it brings is a good example for young people who bare how he works, how much cares and how intense each turn is bat, Whiteher we are 10 or 10 or down for 10”, the launcher of the Cardinals Mikas. “He’s never giving anything.”
The cardinals moved first -base receiver contreras in 2025 to keep it healthy and in the daily alignment.
“The goal for this year was to stay healthy and play every day in the first base,” said Contreras, who played in 59 of the first 63 team games. “But in the first base, my body also hurts and is sore, it is not an easy position.
“You need a lot to be on first base every day. I am here to play every day and help this team in any way I can.”
The cardinals will counteract Yamamoto with Erick Fedde (3-5, 3.82 of effectiveness), who kept the Texas Rangers on two races in four hits and three walks in six tickets on Sunday. Hello, fueled five.
Fedde will catch the Dodgers coming out of a frustrating offensive game. Los Angeles was 1 of 13 with runners in the annotation position on Friday.
“Man, it is a difficult alignment that does a lot of damage, which does not balance and is lost a lot,” said the manager of the cardinals, Oliver Marmol. “They have a lot of versatility in how they can beat you …
“Only a good job between the pages (Catcher Pedro) and our team of pitchers today.”
In his career, Fedde has 1-1 with an effectiveness of 2.77 in three appearances (two openings) against the Dodgers.
