NEW YORK —
As the baseball world orbited around him Friday, Yoshinobu Yamamoto hardly seemed to notice.
Not in the Dodgers’ pregame clubhouse, when Yamamoto sat alone at his locker, then with his legs propped up on a black leather couch, quietly reviewing scouting reports as a gaggle of reporters swarmed the otherwise empty room around him.
Not as he took the field hours later at Yankee Stadium, in the opening game of this weekend’s highly anticipated Dodgers-Yankees series, receiving a chorus of boos from a fan base that had hoped to see him in pinstripes this season.