Is Yoshinobu Yamamoto about to pitch his second complete game in the post season?

[MarineCombatEngineer]

Has this ever been done before?

[Diamond_Dog]

1. He's been so impressive!

[MarineCombatEngineer]

2. Yep, game over, Dodgers win and Yoshinobu Yamamoto picks up his 2nd complete game in the post season.

Congrats to Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

[awesomerwb1]

3. Brilliant from Yamamoto!

Should've been a shutout but for the little league dropped pop up by Freddie.

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Yoshi was much closer to that ball than Freeman

Freddie had to run hard to get to it and just went half a steo too far.

Somebody explain why pirchers can field only one-hoppers hit right back at them.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

8. No explanation. nt

[StoolPigeon]

12. I haven't seen the play in question

But pitchers don't usually go after infield hits because of the change in slope from the mound to level ground. This can cause a fall or even an injury when they concentrate on the ball instead of their feet.

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. Good pitchers do

Or, used to. They'd practice getting off the mound quickly to field bunts and toppers.

Yoshi wouldnl't even have had to sprint off the mound to catch that one. Watch a replay.

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. Complete games used to be pretty common

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These days, they're a big deal. Pitchers cost millions of dollars per season, and owners don't want to risk injury to them by letting them throw too much.

[Brother Buzz]

14. 100 pitches is kinda the accepted target these days

Yamamoto threw 105 pitches. I don't know what his pitch count was going into the ninth inning, but he maintained his stuff through the entire game so we can assume Roberts figured he was good to go.

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. Depends on the pitcher, the score,

the condition of the bullpen...

As with almost everything else in baseball, there's no single standard.

[johnnyplankton]

6. The last time a pitchet had 2 complete games in the same postseason was Curt Schilling in 2001. Different game now.

[Sailingdiver]

7. Bob Gibson

Bob Gibson pitched and won a total of 7 full games in the World Series.

He achieved a 7-2 record in his nine World Series appearances, with all seven of his wins coming in complete games.

He holds the record for the most consecutive World Series wins (7) and the most consecutive complete games (8).

He was a machine.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

9. Awesome!!!!

Probably a record that will never be broken.

[rsdsharp]

10. Christy Mathewson pitched 3 complete game SHUTOUTS in the 1905 Series.

Sandy Koufax had two complete game wins in 1963 and 1965, AND pitched six innings in a loss in ‘65. He also pitched 311 innings in the 1963 regular season, and 335.2 innings in the 1965 season.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

11. Wow!!!

And here I thought I knew a lot about Baseball, jeez, was I wrong, I had no idea.
I guess the saying that Google is your friend is true.
That is some amazing stats and I thank you for sharing them.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. Some of us have lived on this stuff

ever since elementary school. Sometimes I wish I could access the baseball files in my head and download them into a text file. It'd take up many gigabytes.

Btw -- pretty much everything you could want to know about baseball, statistics-wise, can be found at baseball-reference.com. It goes back to 1876 (though records that old are sketchy), when the National League was formed, and includes the Negro Leagues, Mexican leagues, minor leagues and others. I mean, you can probably find Candy Cummings' (inventor of the curve ball) WHIP.

(What you won't find there is anecdotal stuff, like Roger Bresnahan invented shin guards or Cap Anson was a huge racist. For that, y'gotta read like ten thousand books... and I'm probably pretty close to that.)