LOS ANGELES — Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto may very well be heading to the injured listing after he left his begin Saturday night time towards the Kansas Metropolis Royals after two innings attributable to triceps tightness.
“It is a excessive chance,” supervisor Dave Roberts mentioned after the Dodgers’ 7-2 loss. “The following steps will probably be to seek the advice of with the medical doctors and see if he wants testing. Proper now, we’re going by what he’s saying and feeling.”
Yamamoto had his scheduled begin Thursday towards the Texas Rangers pushed again for further relaxation due to the triceps tightness. The Japanese right-hander mentioned by way of his interpreter that the tightness was gone for many of Saturday, however he did begin feeling a little bit of it once more when he was warming up within the bullpen earlier than the sport.
“Clearly, he felt, we felt he might make the beginning,” Roberts mentioned. “We would not pitch him if we felt he was going to place himself in hurt’s method.”
Yamamoto mentioned he didn’t really feel just like the damage was that severe till he began pitching within the sport. He threw solely 14 strikes on 28 pitches and allowed one hit and one stroll with one strikeout.
“I did have tightness and I used to be conscious of it [during the bullpen session], however it wasn’t severe at that time. As I used to be pitching, it began rising,” Yamamoto mentioned. “I let coaches know, and we determined to tug me.”
Yamamoto threw two-hit ball in seven innings on the New York Yankees on June 7. Yamamoto tossed 106 pitches in that sport and had thrown over 100 in 4 consecutive begins till Saturday night time.
“I do not assume the final outing was associated to this tightness, however it’s extra the restoration course of,” he mentioned.
That is Yamamoto’s first 12 months within the majors after he signed a file 12-year, $325 million contract with the Dodgers in December. He’s 6-2 with a 2.92 ERA.