Yoshinobu Yamamoto saw his start pushed back for an extra day rest, and had a rare clunker of a start in the Dodgers’ 7-4 loss to the Angels on Monday night at Angel Stadium in Anaheim.
The All-Star right-hander allowed six runs in 4⅔ innings, the most runs Yamamoto has allowed in his 41 major league starts.
With a few Thursday off days and the Dodgers currently running a six-man rotation, everyone is basically on a once-a-week schedule for a few times through. But Yamamoto, the only remaining member of the opening day rotation to avoid the injured list, whose 23 starts and now 126⅔ innings lead the team, was bumped from a Sunday start in Los Angeles to instead go on Monday in Anaheim.
Manager Dave Roberts was asked Sunday if bumping Yamamoto was because of something he was dealing with