Dodgers can’t overcome Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s disastrous debut

Dodgers starting pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto reacts after giving up five runs in the first inning to the San Diego Padres on March 21, 2024, at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea. SEOUL, South Korea – Major League Baseball might come back to South Korea some day. But first the drummers who pounded away throughout the Seoul Series finale might be going in for labrum surgery.

MLB’s first regular-season visit to Korea resulted in a split Seoul Series after seven Dodgers pitchers gave up 17 hits and hit three batters and third baseman Max Muncy committed two of the team’s three errors. Hyped as a potential ‘super team’ when they arrived in Korea, the Dodgers left trailed by a gambling scandal and looking far from a finished product.The most expensive pitcher in baseball history has 12 years to justify the $325 million contract the Dodgers gave him last winter.

Yamamoto walked Manny Machado, drawing a visit from pitching coach Mark Prior. He did retire the next two batters but took 43 pitches to get out of the inning, allowing four hits, walking one batter, hitting another and throwing a wild pitch. But Yamamoto wasn’t alone in his struggles. Of the 13 pitchers used by both teams, only Padres left-hander Yuki Matsui and Dodgers right-hander Gus Varland escaped without giving up a run. Each recorded two outs in a show that must have made local fans feel better about the state of pitching in the KBO.

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