Yoshinobu Yamamoto has been the ballast for the Dodgers pitching staff, Mr. Reliable, the only member of the starting rotation to be active all season. He’s the first Dodgers pitcher with enough innings to qualify for leaderboards in three seasons.

And he’s barely gotten any run support at all from the Dodgers. Among the 119 pitchers to start at least 18 games this season — the number Baseball Reference uses to weed out the riffraff — Yamamoto has received the fourth-lowest run support while still in the game.

I sorted through Yamamoto’s game logs because his season has been fascinating. In all, the Dodgers have scored 113 runs in the 28 games Yamamoto has started, and average of 4.04 runs per game. The Dodgers in their other 124 games this season have scored 5.36 runs per game while hit

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