Home / Sports / Rookie Sensation Yamamoto Dominates with Back-to-Back Complete Games
Rookie Sensation Yamamoto Dominates with Back-to-Back Complete Games
28 Oct, 2025
Summary
- Japanese pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto signs record $325M contract with Dodgers
- Yamamoto throws two straight complete games in the World Series
- Dodgers and Blue Jays tied 1-1 in the series
The 2025 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays is currently tied 1-1 after two games. The star of the series so far has been Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who signed a record 12-year, $325 million contract with the team in December 2023.
Yamamoto, a 25-year-old Japanese right-hander, has been dominant, throwing two straight complete games in the postseason. His most recent outing was a four-hit, 105-pitch masterpiece in the Dodgers' 5-1 victory over the Blue Jays on Saturday night. Yamamoto escaped a first-and-third, none-out jam in the first inning and retired the final 20 batters he faced, the longest such streak to end a World Series game since Don Larsen's perfect game in 1956.
Prior to the World Series, the entire 2025 MLB regular season had produced only 29 complete games. Yamamoto's back-to-back complete games are the first in the postseason since Curt Schilling achieved the feat for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2001.
