Rookie Sensation Yamamoto Dominates with Back-to-Back Complete Games

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.

The series now shifts to Los Angeles for the next three games, with the Dodgers looking to capitalize on their home-field advantage and the Blue Jays hoping to regain the lead. Regardless of the outcome, Yamamoto's dominant performances have been a highlight of the 2025 World Series so far.