MILWAUKEE >> Much as it had all game, Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s 0-2 splitter appeared it would float over the heart of the plate, before suddenly darting sharply. This one came inside the hands of Andrew Vaughn, carving up the right-hander for a swinging strike three.

Yamamoto turned and paced around the mound, his head down. When he glanced up a few moments later, he could do little to conceal a grin. Yamamoto exhaled, clapped his hand into his glove and said the word most fans were probably thinking after his masterclass of an outing: “Wow.”

The ballgame was over, the Los Angeles Dodgers victorious over the Milwaukee Brewers for the second time behind another sparkling starting pitching performance. One night after Blake Snell fanned 10 over eight shutout innings, Yamamoto upped the ante an

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