Within the last 7 days, the @Dodgers have gotten:
5.1 shutout IP from Yamamoto
6.0 shutout IP from Ohtani
7.0 shutout IP from Sasaki
No other team in MLB history has had 3 different Japanese-born pitchers deliver a scoreless start over an entire season (let alone in one week).
The 2025 Rams currently have:
the NFL leader in passing TDs (Stafford, 30)
the NFL leader in receiving TDs (Adams, 12)
the NFL leader in receptions (Nacua, 80 - tied)
the NFL's best scoring defense (16.3 PPG)
They would be the first team ever to have all 4 in the same season.
In MLB postseason history, only one pitcher has tossed a perfect 8th, a perfect 9th and a perfect 10th in a series-clinching victory.
That one pitcher was the @Dodgers' Roki Sasaki yesterday - as a 23-year-old rookie.
In each of his last 2 starts, the @Dodgers' Blake Snell has:
struck out 11+ batters
allowed 2 or fewer hits
allowed 2 or fewer walks
allowed 0 runs
allowed 0 XBH
The only other MLB pitcher in the modern era to do that in back-to-back starts in a season is Cy Young (1905).
ERA since August 1st:
Snell – 2.44
Yamamoto – 2.74
Glasnow – 2.76
Sheehan – 2.90
Kershaw – 3.40
Ohtani – 3.81
Dodgers rotation leads MLB in ERA during this span.
Over the last 5 games, @Dodgers starting pitchers have racked up 49 strikeouts while holding their opponents to a .091 batting average.
It's the only time in the modern era any MLB team's starters have notched 45+ Ks with a sub-.100 opponent batting average over any 5-game span.
Since pitches were first tracked in 1988, there have been 566 instances of an MLB pitcher winning 5+ games as a starter in a single calendar month (regular season).
Only one of them threw fewer than 400 pitches that month: Clayton Kershaw (395 in August 2025).