Editorial

14:59 JST, November 4, 2025

In an era in which the role of pitchers is increasingly divided into a starter and reliever, Yoshinobu Yamamoto demonstrated overwhelming skill, pitching all nine innings of a game by himself and then pitching in two games in a row with the second one as a reliever. Referring to him as “iron arm” hardly seems enough for such a performance.

In the World Series of Major League Baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays for the first back-to-back World Series victory in their team’s history. Yamamoto was named the series’ MVP. He is the second Japanese player to receive this honor, following Hideki Matsui in 2009.

Yamamoto pitched a complete game in Game 2 and allowed only one run over six innings of pitching in Game 6. In Game 7, in which the Dodgers clinched the........

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