[Ardaya] Change of plans, from Andrew Friedman: Yoshinobu Yamamoto will start Game 1 on Saturday, and Jack Flaherty will pitch Game 2 on Sunday. Big factor was having as many guys lined up and available for a potential Game 5.


[Ardaya] Change of plans, from Andrew Friedman: Yoshinobu Yamamoto will start Game 1 on Saturday, and Jack Flaherty will pitch Game 2 on Sunday. Big factor was having as many guys lined up and available for a potential Game 5.

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  1. This lets Yama go on game 1 and a potential game 5 with normal rest with all hands on deck. Makes sense to me

  2. Yoshi on his regular 5 days rest, Flaherty on his regular 4 days in case a game 5 is needed.

  3. For years we thought it’d be a 1-2 punch of Kershaw and Greinke or Kershaw and Buehler leading us to a full season title.

    Turns out it’ll be Yamamoto and JFlare.

  4. I like it, personally.

    YY needs an extra day compared to the others.

    This makes him available for game 5 if needed.

    The guy has a lot of experience in big games.

  5. Yoshinobu got his shit rocked by the padres all year so this might be concerning. If whoever’s on CF drops a fly ball games over

  6. Go back and watch 6th inning SD vs Braves and watch SD pitcher Estrada rub a foreign substance on the ball before each pitch. It’s clear as day and camera even zooms in on it because of the pre pitch routine he has wedging the ball between his fingers. He keeps a big purplish lump of goo on his pitching hand thumb. It absolutely bananas they didn’t catch this. Pass it on.

  7. Was looking forward to Yama/Darvish in game2; but, this will be fine too.

    Maybe SD will do the Japanese TV audience a favor and move Yu to the (Saturday) Sunday AM game. /s

  8. I bought tickets for Game 1 hoping Yama would pitch and they announced Flaherty…. Now they are pitching YAMA!? LFG!!!! 😤😤😤

  9. Do they even sell Flaherty jerseys? Fuck I wanted to see Yamamoto’s first playoff game soo bad!

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