Baseball: Yamamoto flirts with perfection, Ohtani homers against White Sox

Los Angeles Dodgers ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto came within four outs of a perfect game and narrowly missed a no-hitter, while Shohei Ohtani homered for the third straight outing in Saturday's 7-1 win against the Chicago White Sox.Yamamoto (7-4) allowed one hit and one run while striking out seven over 8-1/3 dominant innings at Chicago's Rate Field.He was able to take the mound with a 3-0 lead after Ohtani led off the game with a 409-foot (125-meter) blast over right field, followed by Max Muncy adding two runs with the first of his two homers for the game.Yamamoto remained perfect until a Mooki…READ FULL ARTICLE