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Two of Major League Baseball's best starting pitchers will square off on Friday night when Yoshinobu Yamamoto and the Los Angeles Dodgers host Paul Skenes and the Pittsburgh Pirates. First pitch at Dodger Stadium is slated for 10:10 p.m. ET ( GameTracker ).

For the second start in a row, Yoshinobu Yamamoto found himself at the center of a must-see pitching matchup made for the big screen. But this time around, the Dodgers' right-hander was bested by his counterpart,