Yoshinobu Yamamoto Falters Against Ceddanne Rafaela And Red Sox In Dodgers' Loss

Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s commencement Saturday would person been ascendant if it weren’t for Red Sox halfway fielder Ceddanne Rafaela.

Rafaela’s brace of location runs accounted for astir of Boston’s harm against Yamamoto successful nan Dodgers’ 3-2 loss. Yamamoto held nan Red Sox to 3 runs and 4 hits done 8 innings.

The Dodgers dropped nan bid to nan Red Sox, needing a triumph Sunday to debar a sweep.

Rafaela jumped each complete nan first transportation he saw from Yamamoto successful nan first inning, a splitter, according to Statcast, that drifted up and in. He drove it into nan left-field stands.

Two innings later, Yamamoto held disconnected Rafaela for longer. But Rafaela battled backmost from a 0-2 count. On nan 4th transportation of nan at-bat, Yamamoto turned to his splitter for nan first time, hardly clipping nan wrong separator of nan onslaught zone. Rafaela turned connected it and sent a towering solo homer 3 rows heavy successful left-center field.

It was nan 2nd multi-homer crippled of Rafaela’s career.

It wasn’t until Yamamoto’s 3rd clip done nan bid that he yet group down Rafaela, who had nan Red Sox’s only hits astatine that point.

Yamamoto went pinch a first-pitch fastball up and in. Rafaela was a small precocious to it but still made difficult contact, sending nan opposite-field alert retired to nan informing track.

In nan eighth, Yamamoto gave up a leadoff ground-rule double to Andruw Monasterio. He made it to 3rd connected Jarren Duran’s push-bunt azygous and scored nan go-ahead tally erstwhile Connor Wong grounded into a double play.

The Dodgers sewage a boost early from Teoscar Hernández connected a two-run location tally successful nan 2nd inning. But they grounded to people again aft leaving 7 runners stranded.

Bullpen shuffle

Before nan game, nan Dodgers put reliever Will Klein connected nan 15-day injured database pinch discomfort successful his correct elbow.

Klein had a 2.29 ERA 1 week into July. But complete his past six appearances, he has surrendered 13 runs, including 8 earned runs (11.37 ERA).

“We’re still trying to excavation into it,” Roberts said Friday aft Klein gave up 3 runs (one earned run) to nan Red Sox successful 1⅓ innings. “I thought location were immoderate bully fastball throws successful location tonight, but nan secondary stuff, that’s benignant of what’s getting him. The sweeper is not a strike, he’s not getting pursuit from it. The curveball has a different style to it than it did past year. So I don’t cognize if it’s an limb thing, a mechanics thing, but that’s thing we’re trying to excavation successful on.”

Klein is nan 2nd right-handed reliever nan Dodgers person put connected nan IL successful arsenic galore days, joining Brock Stewart. And MRI scan Saturday showed tendinitis successful Stewart’s correct shoulder.

He felt immoderate discomfort successful his shoulder, nan aforesaid 1 he had surgically cleaned up successful September, since past Saturday successful New York, Stewart said. But until then, it hadn’t bothered him each season, minor-league rehab stints included.

“It’s almost embarrassing,” said Stewart, who began nan play connected nan IL while recovering from enarthrosis room and had different IL stint erstwhile he aggravated a bony spur successful his near foot. “I’d for illustration to deliberation that I do everything successful my powerfulness to enactment patient and thief out. I cognize I’m proud of nan activity I put successful each day, and that’s each I tin really control. Other than that, I can’t really power really my limb reacts. Just frustrating, particularly aft past twelvemonth having it cleaned up.”

The Dodgers besides designated left-hander Cole Irvin for duty connected Saturday. Irvin covered six innings and yielded six runs successful nan Dodgers’ pseudo-bullpen crippled Saturday, his first major-league quality since 2024.

To switch Irvin and Klein, nan Dodgers recalled right-handed relievers Kyle Hurt and Wyatt Mills.