LAD bullpen, 160.6km monster Sasaki and Kershaw announced retirement and organized themStarting 2 people, redemption, and the weak prescription
Sep 25, 2025
|
|
Loki Sasaki of the Los Angeles Dodgers took the mound as a relief in his return game and pitched well. At the end of the season and in the postseason, he is likely to take an important role as a key bullpen pitcher.
Sasaki appeared in relief in an away game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field on the 25th (Korea time) and recorded no runs by cooking three batters lightly in one inning.
It is the first time in 138 days that Sasaki has taken the big league mound since he started against Arizona on May 10. Sasaki, who was sluggish with five hits and five runs in four innings against Arizona at the time, was diagnosed with right shoulder collision syndrome and was listed as injured.
After three months of rehabilitation, Sasaki pitched rehabilitation pitching for the Triple-A Oklahoma City Coppets on the 15th of last month, throwing 20 ⅔ innings in seven games, giving up 20 hits and 13 walks, striking out 19 and posting a 6.10 ERA. Although the figure itself did not seem to have improved with a hit rate of 0.263 and WHIP 1.60, the Dodgers' team said that the ball power has been upgraded to the next level.
In particular, he has succeeded in switching positions in preparation for his return to the big leagues by pitching stably with no hits, one walk, and three strikeouts in two most recent innings of relief. Above all, it was encouraging that the fastball speed exceeded 100 miles, and that it was sprayed 98 to 99 miles on average.
|
|
Sasaki, who hit James McCann as the leadoff hitter, hit a 99.1-mile fastball on the first pitch with a low strike outside and threw an 87.3-mile splitter toward his body on the second pitch to catch a ground ball to third base.
He then struck out Tim Tawa with a 99.1-mile fastball on the fifth pitch with a low strike zone in the ball count of 2B2S, and put Vargas to rest with a swing and miss strikeout on the full count. Vargas fumbled his bat on a 99.5-mile fastball that dug into the low strike zone outside off.
He threw 13 pitches in one inning and hit eight strikes. His fastball speed of seven shots reached a maximum of 99.8 miles (160.6 kilometers) and an average of 99.2 miles. The remaining six were splitters, with confinement formed at 86.1 to 88.6 miles.
|
However, as soon as Enriquez came out, Gabriel Moreno gave up one run on an infield hit in front of the catcher, and gave up a sacrifice fly to center field to allow a 4-4 tie. All three runs in the eighth inning were up to Vesia, and Blon save was given to Enriquez.
The Dodgers put up Clayton Kershaw, the starting agent, in the ninth inning when the 4-4 tie continued. Kershaw, like Sasaki, perfectly put three batters to bed in one inning. He grounded out to shortstop to lead Vargas, grounded out to Alec Thomas to first base, and caught Marte to center field flies, respectively, and turned the game into extra time.
The Dodgers, whose Jack Drier and Blake Trinen struggled to score no runs in the bottom of the 10th inning, eventually took a 5-4 lead with Tommy Edman's hit to left-center with two outs and a third base in the top of the 11th inning, and Justin Roblesky blocked one inning with two strikeouts and no runs in the bottom of the 11th inning to determine the victory.
|
The Dodgers, which lost two consecutive games, marked 89 wins and 69 losses and reduced the magic number for winning the NL West to '1'. Adding one win in the remaining four games will confirm the district's No. 1 ranking for the fourth consecutive year and 12 times in the last 13 years.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
