Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto stayed back and cleaned the team’s dugout after pitching a complete game and 105 pitches in World Series Game 2.
Yamamoto went nine innings in Game 2 of the World Series against the Blue Jays, getting eight strikeouts with one earned run on the night.
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The 27-year-old is having the postseason run of his career, boasting a 1.57 ERA in four outings thus far. He’s thrown back-to-back complete games.
Despite his success, Yamamoto still carries himself humbly. In a photo posted by MLB insider Ben Verlander, Yamamoto is seen with his pitcher’s glove picking up trash after his fantastic start.
According to Thrive Tokyo, Japanese culture values cleanliness and tidiness highly. At a young age, kids are taught to pick up after themselves and not rely on others to clean their mess.
“Japanese people are taught the importance of maintaining a clean environment from when they are young. Japanese public schools do not rely on janitors to keep the environment clean. Instead, students have time set aside for cleaning and tidying in the afternoon, called osouji,” a post on Thrive Tokyo reads.
“Students are to clean their assigned location; some hand wipe the floors, some move the desks, and some clean the hallway. Students rotate between roles from time to time and clean the whole campus as a team every single day.”
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Heading into Game 2, the pressure was on Yamamoto, especially since Blake Snell, who has been dominant all postseason long, had his worst start of October.
On Saturday, the Japanese ace delivered for the Dodgers and evened up the series heading back to Los Angeles.
His outing was historic, finishing as the first World Series complete game since Johnny Cueto’s start for the Kansas City Royals in 2015.
If the Dodgers go to a Game 6 and he pitches well again, Yamamoto could be in line for a World Series MVP, cleaning up another award in his young MLB career.
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