MILWAUKEE — Sunday was one of the best days of Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s baseball career as he was named to the MLB All-Star team for the first time.
Monday was one of the worst.
Yamamoto gave up five runs and failed to get out of the first inning – thanks in part to a throwing error by shortstop Mookie Betts – in the shortest start of his two-season MLB career, sending the Dodgers on their way to a 9-1 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers.
The loss was the Dodgers’ fourth in a row, matching their longest losing streak of this season. They have been outscored 38-7 during the skid.
Yamamoto was in trouble from the start against the Brewers. He gave up a leadoff double to Sal Frelick and walked the next batter. After a fly out and a ground out, though, Yamamoto was one pitch away from escaping with no damage. But his 2-and-2 slider to Andrew Vaughn stayed up and Vaughn hammered it into the right field seats for a three-run home run.
The homer came in Vaughn’s first at-bat with the Brewers after being acquired in a trade with the Chicago White Sox and then getting promoted from Triple-A.
Things didn’t get better for Yamamoto. He gave up a single to Isaac Collins and walked Brice Turang. He looked like he was ready to escape the inning yet again when Caleb Durbin bounced a ground ball to Betts. But Betts’ throw to first base was in the dirt and Freddie Freeman couldn’t scoop it out. One run scored on the play and another scored when Andrew Monasterio dropped a bloop single into right field.
That came on Yamamoto’s 41st – and final – pitch of the inning. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pulled him after facing nine batters and retiring just two.
That turned Monday into an unplanned ‘bullpen game’ and the Dodgers’ relievers handled it well for awhile. Jack Dreyer and Lou Trivino combined to retire 10 batters in a row after Yamamoto left. But Will Klein gave up two runs in the fifth inning and Julian Fernandez (pitching in his first major-league game since 2021) served up a two-run home run to Christian Yelich in the seventh.
None of that mattered. The Dodgers’ offense stayed silent for the fourth consecutive game, managing just five hits in six innings against Brewers left-hander Freddy Peralta, himself an NL All-Star selection. They avoided a shutout with Esteury Ruiz’s two-out RBI single off of Brewers reliever Aaron Ashby – literally off him. Ashby deflected Ruiz’s ground ball back to the mound into right field.
The Dodgers’ lineup has been dropping parts over the past week – Max Muncy, Tommy Edman, Teoscar Hernandez and Kiké Hernandez are all sidelined with injuries – and has put up a .215 batting average during the four-game losing streak.
More to come on this story.
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