CLEVELAND, Ohio — Baseball has seen legendary World Series performances throughout its history, but what Yoshinobu Yamamoto accomplished for the Dodgers in this year’s Fall Classic may have reset the standard for postseason excellence. The Cleveland Baseball Talk Podcast delved into this historic achievement, with hosts Joe Noga and Paul Hoynes struggling to find adequate words to describe what they witnessed.

“For a 10 day stretch, Yoshinobu Yamamoto was the best pitcher in the universe. And I don’t think anybody can question that,” declared Noga. “What he did was superhuman. We’ve never seen the likes of it in the World Series. We’ve never seen the likes of it in the postseason. And who knows if we’ll ever see anything like it again.”

The numbers alone tell an extraordinary story. As H

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