Overview
- Yamamoto is scheduled to start for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Baltimore Orioles at Dodger Stadium, giving him another chance to complete a no-hitter that has eluded him.
- In his most recent outing he carried a perfect-game bid into the eighth and then surrendered a ninth-inning homer that ended the no-hit bid, extending a pattern of late-game near-misses.
- Between starts he retired 45 consecutive batters, a streak that ties Mark Buehrle for the second-longest run in MLB history and sits one short of the record of 46.
- Over his past five starts he is 4-1 with a 1.01 ERA and leads the Dodgers in innings pitched, a stretch that has the club believing his first no-hitter is likely to come soon.
- Yamamoto has said he felt disappointment after the near-misses but takes comfort that his outings have helped the team win, while his two ninth-inning losses by homer place him in an unusually rare historical category.