Roki Sasaki

18 de março de 2026

Posts uneven spring start

Sasaki gave up three runs on four hits and four walks while striking out five batters over 3.1 innings in a Cactus League outing against Kansas City on Tuesday.

Análise

Sasaki struck out two of the first three batters he faced and got through two frames without being scored upon. In the third, he fanned the first batter of the inning but then walked three straight before being pulled. Under spring-training rules, Sasaki returned for the fourth and faced two batters (giving up one hit), then came back out for the fifth and yielded a double before his day was done for good. Overall, the right-hander threw just 38 of 71 pitches for strikes, and he's now walked a whopping nine batters (while striking out 10 and posting a 13.50 ERA) over just 6.2 spring frames. Sasaki did say after the game that the loss of command in the third inning was caused by him trying to work on his sinker, per Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic, but his lack of control during the spring slate is at least somewhat alarming. Still, manager Dave Roberts said Wednesday that Sasaki "is going to be one of our starters" to begin the regular season, according to Ardaya, so it sounds like the Dodgers are going to at least give the Japanese hurler a chance to show that his results in Cactus League action aren't representative of the campaign that lies ahead of him.