Baseball: Yamamoto solid, but charged with loss as Braves sweep Dodgers
ATLANTA (Kyodo) -- Los Angeles Dodgers ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed a run over 6-1/3 innings but was charged with Thursday's 1-0 loss to the Atlanta
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto delivered a solid performance over six and a third innings but was blamed for Thursday's 1-0 defeat to the Atlanta Braves. The Yankees' ace surrendered his lone run on the first pitch of the game when Drake Baldwin hit a hanging splitter to right field. The Braves swept the three-game series, winning each contest by a single run.
Yankees starter Chris Sale tossed a five-hit shutout, striking out 11 against a 109-pitch effort. Yamamoto scattered three more hits and walked one in a 105-pitch outing, recording eight strikeouts and completing three consecutive 1-2-3 innings. "I went into the game focused, but I gave up a homer on a fat first pitch and that leaves me frustrated," Yamamoto admitted.
"They had a really good batting lineup, as expected. I pulled myself together in facing each of them." Shohei Ohtani went 0-for-4 for the Dodgers, striking out twice swinging.
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