
Bill Plunkett
@billplunkettocr
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Dodgers beat writer, Orange County Register/Southern California Newspaper Group
Joined October 2010
LA Story: Shohei Ohtani, The Los Angeles Dodgers, and a Season for the Ages Available now for pre-order. Relive the remarkable 2024 season. I hear the author is pretty good. https://t.co/wZpXVcSUS0
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Baseball has never seen a player like Shohei Ohtani. After six seasons establishing himself as a once-in-a-century two-way star but making zero playoff appearances, Ohtani’s record-shattering $700...
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Blake Snell and Yoshinobu Yamamoto: -First teammates to go 8+ IP in back-to-back games within a single postseason series since Madison Bumgarner and Tim Lincecum in the 2010 World Series -First @Dodgers pitchers to do so in back-to-back postseason games since Orel Hershiser and
Pair of Aces 🔥 Blake Snell and Yoshinobu Yamamoto are the first starters since 2016 to throw 8+ innings in consecutive #Postseason games for a team!
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SS Mookie Betts … Gold Glove finalist
Your National League @RawlingsSports Gold Glove Finalists 😮💨 Winners will be announced on Sunday, November 2nd on @ESPN
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Going into the postseason, #Dodgers planned to lean on their starting pitching (and minimize the exposure of their Achilles heels in the bullpen). It has worked to perfection. 8 games into their postseason (seven wins) -- 52⅔ IP, 11 R (9 ER), 24 H, 63 K https://t.co/aAC8CYaw1M
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After Blake Snell dazzled in Game 1, Yamamoto holds the Brewers to three hits in a 5-1 win, throwing the first postseason complete game by a Dodgers pitcher since Jose Lima in the 2004 NLDS.
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The legend of the Pfister Hotel lives on -- like some of its former guests turned ghosts. The venerable hotel has been compared to Disneyland's Haunted Mansion ride and some #Dodgers didn't stay there this week, preferring more phantom-free accommodations https://t.co/jUXy6Yd8BO
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The team hotel in Milwaukee is allegedly haunted, prompting some Dodgers players, including Hernandez, to opt for phantom-free accommodations elsewhere. … Hernandez says “nobody to blame but …
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Entering Tuesday, no MLB team's starters had posted a sub-1.50 ERA over a 30-game span (reg or post) since the mound was lowered in 1969. Neither had any team's starters allowed a sub-.150 batting average over a 30-game span. The @Dodgers have now done both over their last 30.
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Going into the postseason, #Dodgers planned to lean on their starting pitching (and minimize the exposure of their Achilles heels in the bullpen). It has worked to perfection. 8 games into their postseason (seven wins) -- 52⅔ IP, 11 R (9 ER), 24 H, 63 K https://t.co/aAC8CYaw1M
ocregister.com
After Blake Snell dazzled in Game 1, Yamamoto holds the Brewers to three hits in a 5-1 win, throwing the first postseason complete game by a Dodgers pitcher since Jose Lima in the 2004 NLDS.
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the 1st pitcher with a complete game and 0 runners in scoring position in a playoff game since Roy Halladay's no-hitter in 2010 vs the Reds 👏
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Lima Time!
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97 pitches for #Dodgers Yoshinobu Yamamoto and he's going back out to start the 9th. Has retired past 11 batters in a row
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The Dodgers starting staff has a 40.5% miss rate this Postseason. Dylan Cease led starters with a 33.4% miss rate during the 2025 season. #Postseason | #Dodgers
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The legend of the Pfister Hotel lives on -- like some of its former guests turned ghosts. The venerable hotel has been compared to Disneyland's Haunted Mansion ride and some #Dodgers didn't stay there this week, preferring more phantom-free accommodations https://t.co/jUXy6Yd8BO
ocregister.com
The team hotel in Milwaukee is allegedly haunted, prompting some Dodgers players, including Hernandez, to opt for phantom-free accommodations elsewhere. … Hernandez says “nobody to blame but …
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto has retired 10 of 11 since Sal Frelick single in the fifth inning. He's through 7 IP on 89 pitches. #Dodgers getting another chance to minimize exposure of their bullpen
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#Dodgers Shohei Ohtani slaps a single through the right side with the infield in. Follows a 1-for-23 stretch. Only hits in NLDS and NLCS were RBI singles
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Max Muncy's HR broke a tie with Justin Turner and Corey Seager. He now has 14 postseason HRs, most in #Dodgers history
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Or -- hear me out on this -- they have faced two of the best pitching staffs in MLB
@Dodgers22Fan1 @billplunkettocr The whole offense has been no show MIA.
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Sal Frelick can't bring this one back. Max Muncy hits a solo HR over the CF wall. #Dodgers lead 3-1
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#Dodgers Shohei Ohtani in NLDS and NLCS -- 1 for 23, 11 strikeouts
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Since giving up HR on his first pitch, #Dodgers Yoshinobu Yamamoto has allowed two singles in first 4 IP. No other Brewer has reached 2B safely since Jackson Chourio HR
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