Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts uses the word ace sparingly when it comes to his pitching staff. He bestowed it upon Yoshinobu Yamamoto before his start against Arizona, and the Japanese right-hander lived up to the billing.

Yamamoto takes a no-hitter into the seventh and strikes out nine. The Dodgers erase a 3-1 deficit in the 10th for a 4-3 win that snaps a four-game losing streak on Max Muncy’s walk-off sacrifice

Yoshinobu Yamamoto made history before even throwing a single pitch in Major League Baseball with the sport’s richest contract ever for a pitcher, and has spent the months since charting a path towards nights like Tuesday night,