Yoshinobu Yamamoto put the finishing touches on a great regular season with yet another scoreless start on Thursday to earn the win in the game that clinched the National League West for the Dodgers.

Yamamoto struck out seven Diamondbacks on Thursday at Chase Field, giving him 201 strikeouts on the season. That put him in select company, as the first Dodgers pitcher with at least 200 strikeouts since 2021, and only the fourth such season for the franchise in the last 10 years: • 2017: Clayton Kershaw, 202 strikeouts • 2019: Walker Buehler, 215 strikeouts • 2021: Walker Buehler, 212 strikeouts • 2025: Yoshinobu Yamamoto, 201 strikeouts

Yamamoto is one of a dozen major league pitchers with 200 strikeouts this season, and among qualified pitchers ranks fifth with a 29.4-percent stri

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