More on Friday’s mound gem, the National League home run leader with a new endorsement deal, and a new baby on board
Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s gem on Friday night is still front of mind, as it extended the Dodgers right-hander’s scoreless streak to 18 innings and lowered his ERA below one.
Tommy Edman, who homered in that Friday game and has been pulling the ball in the air much more often this year to great benefit, said this of Yamamoto on Friday night, from Jack Harris of the Los Angeles Times:
“He just has so many ways to get ahead of hitters. … He can dump in a curveball. He can dot a fastball away. He just has so many ways to get back into the count. Then once he’s up in the count, he’s got a lot of pitches to put them away. He has something for every situation. And he’s been executing all of them.”
Edman this week also inked an endorsement deal with Edmunds, a car-shopping site, playing off the similarities in his and their name.
Shohei Ohtani’s wife Mamiko gave birth to a baby girl, Ohtani announced on Saturday.
Ohtani was placed on the paternity list on Friday, and manager Dave Roberts told reporters Saturday in Texas that Ohtani texted him and is expected to be back with the team for Sunday’s series finale against the Rangers.
Brent Honeywell, currently a free agent, got his 2024 World Series ring on Saturday in Arlington.
Bullpen Dawg for life.
Congratulations Brent on receiving your World Series ring! pic.twitter.com/cWEqtfNWoJ
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) April 19, 2025
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In Jayson Stark’s Weird & Wild column at The Athletic, he noted that in the Miguel Rojas two-inning, 14-batter mop-up relief work on April 12, Cubs rookie Gage Workman became the first player in major league history to get his first two major league hits off the same position-player pitcher.
Maury Brown at Forbes dug into the data to show, among other things, how strong Major League Baseball rates in local viewership relative to other sports.