"Yada Sensei, as he is known, plays a number of roles for Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto, whose performance in Los Angeles' 5-4 victory in Game 7 of the World Series will go down in the annals of baseball history. Yada is a biomechanist first and foremost, obsessive about how the body's movement patterns apply force to a baseball. Beyond that, he is a philosophical guru, a bridge between the ocean-wide chasm that separates Japanese baseball, where Yamamoto formed his foundation,"
"Working on no rest after a six-inning, 96-pitch effort to set up the Dodgers for a Game 6 victory and send the series to a winner-takes-all seventh game, Yamamoto materialized from the Dodgers' bullpen to spread 34 pitches over 2⅔ scoreless innings and secure the win that delivered Los Angeles its second consecutive championship and third in six years. All of that on the heels of Yamamoto's complete-game triumph in Game 2,"
"TORONTO -- A 66-year-old man with a pierced left ear and a backward cap stood in the outfield at Rogers Centre early Sunday morning and beheld all that surrounded him. Tri-color confetti littered the turf, the videoboard in center field touted the Los Angeles Dodgers' latest World Series championship, and Osamu Yada -- the man who made it all possible -- grinned at his great fortune."
Osamu Yada functions as a biomechanist and philosophical coach for Yoshinobu Yamamoto, focusing on how movement patterns apply force to pitching. Yada bridged Japanese and American baseball principles to shape Yamamoto's mechanics and mindset. Yamamoto delivered a historic World Series showing, entering Game 7 from the bullpen after a six-inning, 96-pitch effort in Game 6 and throwing 34 pitches across 2⅔ scoreless innings to earn the Dodgers a 5-4 victory. Yamamoto also completed a Game 2 triumph and followed a start-to-finish outing in the NLCS, placing him among rare postseason performers compared to Randy Johnson in 2001.
Read at ESPN.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]