“Yamamoto’s painful two-run shot” batters responded, three-run bam from behind → eight-point explosive opener, a big victory [MLB]

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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto is watching the players in the dugout during the offense after starting the opening game of the Arizona Diamondbacks and 2026 Major League Baseball (MLB) home on the 27th. /AFPBBNews=News1

Yamamoto Yoshinobu (LA Dodgers) threw well but bowed his head to a home run. The Dodgers’ batters immediately responded. Starting with a come-from-behind three-run home run, he started the opening game in a good mood, boasting his fearsome firepower.

The Dodgers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-2 in the opening game of the 2026 Major League Baseball (MLB) at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California on the 27th (Korea time).

The defending champion Dodgers had Yamamoto as the starting pitcher in the first game. The lineup was composed of Shohei Ohtani (designated hitter), Kyle Tucker (right fielder), Mookie Betts (striker), Freddie Freeman (first baseman), Will Smith (catcher), Max Muncy (third baseman), Teosca Hernandez (left fielder), Andy Parz (middle fielder) and Miguel Rojas (second baseman).

Arizona faced off with Ketel Marte (second baseman), Corbin Carroll (right fielder), Gerardo Perdomo (striker), Gabriel Moreno (catcher), Nolan Arenado (third baseman), Carlos Santana (first baseman), Jordan Lawler (left fielder), Alec Thomas (center fielder) and Tim Tawa (designated hitter). The starting pitcher is Jack Gallen.

Yamamoto fighting hard. /AFPBBNews=News1

Yamamoto pitched well until the third inning. He got a hit by Perdomo with two outs in the top of the first inning, but finished the inning by erasing the runner with a sharp check. Yamamoto, who finished the second inning with three outs, got a double by the first batter roller in the third inning and allowed an infield hit to Tawa with one out, putting the runner on the first and second bases and hitting Marte, but Freeman caught a straight hit toward the first base and threw it to the second base to make a double out.

The fourth inning was a fly in the ointment. The cutter thrown to Carol, the first batter, flocked to get a hit, and the four-seam fastball thrown to Perdomo also flocked to allow a pre-emptive two-run shot over the right fence.

However, Yamamoto, who handled three batters, including two strikeouts, neatly finished the fifth inning with three outs.

In the bottom of the fifth inning, the batters responded. In the first and second base opportunities with no outs, Muncy and Hernandez made consecutive hits, Pazs rolled up a knuckle curve at the bottom of the zone to decorate a three-run home run in left-center that turned the game around.

Andy Pazs hits a come-from-behind three-run home run. /AFPBBNews=News1

After Rojas’ hit and Ohtani’s walk, Arizona then lowered the gallon and called up Juan Morillo to add two out-counts, but Smith’s timely hit followed Freeman’s walk.

Yamamoto, who returned to the mound with the lead, caught three batters and finished pitching on the day. Since then, the Dodgers mound has been pitched as Blake Treinen, Will Klein, and Tanner Scott.

After the leadoff batter Ohtani walked with a hit ball in the seventh inning, Tucker’s double homered Ohtani, and Betts’ hit and Smith’s two-run home run added to widen the gap to 8-2 at once.

Yamamoto became the winning pitcher with five hits (one homer) and six strikeouts and two runs in six innings. Ohtani went 1 for 3 with two outs and one run scored.

Ohtani is happy after scoring. /AFPBBNews=News1

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