Saturday, November 1, 2025

Yamamoto wins it for LA Dodgers, Japan

Series was won by two incredible double plays.
Dodger pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto named World Series MVP (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

Dodgers are World Series champions after defeating Blue Jays in dramatic Game 7 | LAist
  • Good sportsmanship 👼⚾🧢 means being friends after a fair win. Someone has to lose in capitalist competitions, and everyone knows that going in (only no one knows it might be them).
What is dukkha?
(seerasan) Baseball is as Japanese as rice and Zen or mamasan and sushi


Happy b-day, Fernando's ghost
Mexican pitching marvel Fernando Valenzuela comes through for the Dodgers again. Although his contribution this year was posthumous, it is his birthday and it is the Day of the Dead, and something unseen pushed Yoshinobu Yamamoto to greatest tonight. It has to seem supernatural to overcome the odds and win the biggest game of his life. There may be trouble in celebratory Los Angeles, still reeling from Halloween Carnival in West Hollywood tonight, Samhain trick-or-treaters going all night, and the seasonal festivities of Christian-Pagan syncretism.
MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Yoshinobu Yamamoto (山本 由伸, born 1998) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB).

He previously played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Orix Buffaloes, where he became one of the most decorated pitchers in league history.

Between 2021 and 2023, Yamamoto won three consecutive Pacific League Most Valuable Player Awards, three Eiji Sawamura Awards, and three Triple Crowns, leading the league in wins, strikeouts, and earned run average in each of those seasons.


Shohei Ohtani is having fun, and that's gotta hurt.
He also threw two no-hitters and was a key figure in Orix’s 2022 Japan Series championship.

Following the 2023 season, Yamamoto was posted to MLB and signed a 12-year, $325 million contract with the Dodgers—the largest ever for a pitcher at the time.


In his rookie MLB season, he contributed to Los Angeles’ 2024 World Series title, becoming the first player in baseball history to win a World Series, an Olympic gold medal, and a World Baseball Classic title.

In 2025, Yamamoto was named to his first All-Star game. Internationally, he has represented Japan in multiple tournaments, earning gold medals at the 2019 WBSC Premier12, the 2020 Summer Olympics, and the 2023 World Baseball Classic. More

Short summary: What happened?!
  • Somewhere there's a Shohei Ohtani Industrial Complex, and that somewhere is Japan, extending to other islands like Hawaii and California (which is also an island according to many European maps)
  • Baseball Authority; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
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