Baseball: Yamamoto pitches Dodgers to win, backed by Ohtani's 2 RBIs

Yoshinobu Yamamoto struck out nine over seven strong innings and Shohei Ohtani drove in two runs for the Los Angeles Dodgers in a 5-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Monday.Yamamoto (9-7) allowed one run on four hits and two walks in his latest quality start. The right-hander threw 65 of his 101 pitches for strikes and took his ERA for his last three starts to 0.95.He gave up his only run on a force-out in the first inning but kept the Reds in check for the rest of his time on the mound."I was able to outwit batters," said Yamamoto, who credited catcher Dalton Rushing for calling a stro…READ FULL ARTICLE