Next week, Freddy Peralta and Yoshinobu Yamamoto will be teammates on the National League All-Star Team. Tonight, they’ll face off as the star-laden Los Angeles Dodgers, owners of the National League’s best record, visit Milwaukee for the first of six games they’ll play in the next 13 days.
Yamamoto is the one star pitcher on the Dodgers’ roster who has actually been healthy this season, as Tyler Glasnow, Tony Gonsolin, Roki Sasaki, and Blake Snell are all currently on the 60-day injured list, and Clayton Kershaw and Shohei Ohtani are at various levels of just returning from injury.