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Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Dodgers shortly lose management in NLDS Sport 3 loss to Phillies

By Editorial Board Published October 9, 2025 8 Min Read
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Dodgers shortly lose management in NLDS Sport 3 loss to Phillies

The Phillies seemed rattled. The Dodgers seemed assured. And the Chavez Ravine crowd was seemingly smelling blood.

Early in Sport 3 of the Nationwide League Division Collection on Wednesday, the Dodgers had all of the momentum. They’d already taken every of the primary two video games of this best-of-five set in Philadelphia. Their finest pitcher this season, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, had began his evening with three scoreless innings.

Then, after a questionable pitching change from Phillies supervisor Rob Thomson within the backside of the third, Tommy Edman greeted newly inserted left-hander Ranger Suárez with a leadoff dwelling run to open the scoring.

Previous to first pitch, the Dodgers had emphasised the significance of ending the Phillies off now.

And as Edman rounded the bases, and Dodger Stadium erupted round him, they seemingly had their likelihood.

In postseason baseball, nevertheless, momentum generally is a fickle factor. Each new inning brings the potential for a plot twist. Each at-bat carries the specter of a turning level. And each single pitch can show to be the distinction.

“You never know in the playoffs,” Kiké Hernández mentioned pregame, “which pitch is going to win you a game.”

On Wednesday, within the Phillies’ come-from-behind, elimination-staving 8-2 win, the pitch that misplaced the Dodgers the sport got here with no outs within the fourth.

Simply moments after Edman had put the Dodgers in entrance, slumping Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber answered with a press release — clobbering an elevated Yamamoto fastball for a staggering 455-foot dwelling run, bouncing his blast off the roof of the right-field pavilion.

The moon shot tied the rating 1-1. It additionally opened the floodgates for the Phillies’ earlier dormant offense. Earlier than Schwarber’s blast, Yamamoto had retired 9 of his first 10 batters on simply 36 pitches. After it, he gave up 5 extra hits and two extra runs, placing the Dodgers in a gap from which they wouldn’t get well — particularly not after Clayton Kershaw gave up 5 extra runs within the prime of the eighth.

Now, the dynamics of this collection have shifted. The Phillies want only one extra win to return to dwelling soil, and will have their ace, Cristopher Sánchez, able to pitch Sport 4 in an effort to get there.

“When you talk about momentum, if you don’t finish it tonight, you feel like it’s slipping away,” Max Muncy mentioned earlier than the sport. “That’s definitely not something you want to have happen.”

On Wednesday, nevertheless, it was one thing the Dodgers couldn’t keep away from.

This one served as a reversal from Video games 1 and a pair of of this collection, and never solely as a result of it was the Phillies’ flip to play spoiler in a highway ballpark.

For the primary time on this NLDS, the Phillies’ star hitters outshone their Dodger counterparts. Schwarber’s game-altering dwelling run was his first hit of the collection (snapping an 0-for-nine skid beforehand), and his first of two dwelling runs on the evening. Trea Turner tripled his NLDS hit complete in a three-for-five, two-RBI displaying. Bryce Harper additionally reached base twice whereas drawing a stroll.

Philadelphia slugger Kyle Schwarber celebrates after hitting a home run in the fourth inning.

Philadelphia slugger Kyle Schwarber celebrates after hitting a house run within the fourth inning towards the Dodgers in Sport 3 of the NLDS on Wednesday evening.

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Occasions)

Ohtani, in the meantime, went hitless in 5 at-bats to fall to at least one for 14 within the collection. And whereas Betts had two hits, together with a first-inning triple, the duo behind him couldn’t take benefit, with Teoscar Hernández and Freddie Freeman going a mixed 0 for 7.

In an surprising improvement, the Phillies’ pitching plan additionally proved to be higher.

Coming into the sport, the Dodgers appeared to have the sting with Yamamoto, over the Phillies’ pre-determined piggyback of Aaron Nola (who had a career-worst 6.01 ERA this season) and Suárez.

However Nola pitched two scoreless innings to start the sport. And although Suárez’s evening began with the house run by Edman (the switch-hitter who was capable of flip to his stronger right-handed aspect with the southpaw on the mound), he settled down for 15 scoreless outs after that, working round 4 extra hits and a stroll to get by means of the seventh.

Yamamoto, then again, misplaced management after Schwarber’s titanic dwelling run led off the fourth.

Dodgers starting pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto stands on the mound after giving up a home run.

Dodgers beginning pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto stands on the mound after giving up a house run to Kyle Schwarber within the fourth inning.

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Occasions)

Harper instantly adopted with a single on a dangling splitter. Alec Bohm did the identical on an inside sinker, sending a floor ball up the center. Pages fielded that ball, however short-hopped his throw to 3rd base in an effort to gun down Harper. When Max Muncy couldn’t block it, it bounced into the dugout to permit Harper to attain and Bohm to advance to 3rd. Brandon Marsh added insult to damage with a sacrifice fly within the subsequent at-bat.

Issues didn’t get significantly better for Yamamoto from there. He gave up a double to J.T. Realmuto later within the fourth. Again-to-back singles to start the fifth chased him from the sport.

Yamamoto’s closing line: 4-plus innings, three runs, six hits, one stroll and solely two strikeouts. It was the shortest begin from the Dodgers’ rotation this postseason, tied Ohtani’s Sport 1 outing on this collection for essentially the most runs allowed, and was Yamamoto’s first time with extra hits allowed than strikeouts since July 7.

The Dodgers’ slim hopes of a comeback have been formally dashed within the eighth, when Kershaw (making his first look of the postseason) was despatched again to the mound for a second inning of labor.

As an alternative of retaining the sport shut, and forcing the Phillies to doubtlessly use nearer Jhoan Durán for a six-out save, Kershaw was ambushed, giving up a two-run single to Turner and a two-run homer to Schwarber that bounced off the highest of the right-field wall.

With that, a crowd that was anticipating a sweep within the early innings of Wednesday’s recreation filed towards the exits — slugging away with the Dodgers nonetheless main this collection, however having misplaced all of the momentum.

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