Overview
- Yamamoto retired the first 23 White Sox batters and had a perfect game through 7 2/3 innings before the sequence was broken, and he lost the no-hitter on a leadoff ninth-inning homer by Triston Peters on Saturday.
- A routine grounder to Mookie Betts in the eighth was misplayed for an error that ended the perfect-game bid and halted Yamamoto's streak of 45 consecutive batters retired.
- He completed 8 1/3 innings with one hit, one run, zero walks and seven strikeouts as the Dodgers routed the White Sox 7-1.
- The performance extended a run of dominance for Yamamoto this season and added to his history of near-misses after two NPB no-hitters and a ninth-inning loss of a no-hit bid in September 2025.
- The game illustrates how rare perfect games and no-hitters are and how single defensive plays or one swing of the bat often decide whether a pitcher reaches those milestones, a dynamic seen across the Dodgers' long no-hitter history.