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The World Series champions improved to 7-0 at
home and have beaten the NL Central-leading Cubs for the third
time, having swept the teams’ season-opening series in Tokyo.
Yamamoto and Matthew Boyd dueled through five scoreless innings.
Yamamoto retired 16 of his first 18 batters — eight on
strikeouts.
The Dodgers’ only hits off Boyd through five were a pair of
singles by Miguel Rojas and Michael Conforto.
Teoscar Hernández singled with one out in the sixth. Boyd then
hit Freddie Freeman before Edman, last year's NL Championship
Series MVP, sent a pitch halfway up the left-field pavilion for
a 3-0 lead. It was the first homer given up by Boyd in three
starts.
Edman's sixth homer ties him for the major-league lead with
Aaron Judge, Kyle Schwarber and Mike Trout, among others.
Yamamoto (2-1) struck out nine and walked one. Tanner Scott
pitched the ninth for his fourth save.
Boyd (1-1) gave up three runs and four hits in six innings. The
left-hander struck out seven and walked three.
Kyle Tucker doubled down the first-base line for the Cubs’ first
hit in the fourth. Seiya Suzuki followed with a single to right
but was out trying to stretch at first while Tucker went to
third.
Key moment
Edman, shifted closer to second, chased down a ball hit to his
left by Amaya, spun around and fired blindly to first to
narrowly get the second out of the sixth in a scoreless game.
Key stat
Shohei Ohtani went hitless in four at-bats with two strikeouts,
snapping his consecutive games on-base streak at 29 dating to
Sept. 14, 2024.
Up next
Cubs RHP Ben Brown (1-1, 7.71 ERA) opposes touted Dodgers rookie
RHP Roki Sasaki (0-0, 4.15), who has yet to get past the fourth
inning in his first three starts.
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