LOS ANGELES -- Justin Wrobleski did not go the distance, but he showed exactly why the Dodgers have been so high on him this season.
Wrobleski spun the most masterful performance of his big league career on Monday night, facing one over the minimum across eight scoreless innings in a series-opening 4-0 win over the Mets at Dodger Stadium. He struck out a pair and allowed just two hits in the dominant outing.
Through eight innings, Wrobleski had thrown just 90 pitches, but he did not come back out for the ninth, with the Dodgers likely being conscious of the fact that the 78 pitches he threw in his prior outing was his previous season high. There was no "Maddux" for him, but it went down as the best outing by a Dodgers starter in 2026, three turns into the rotation.
In his second start (third appearance) of the season, Wrobleski blew past his previous career high of six innings, which he set in a start in St. Louis on June 6 of last year and matched in long relief later that month.
Wrobleski went 13 up, 13 down to begin his outing before giving up a base hit to Jorge Polanco with one out in the fifth inning. Polanco was promptly erased on a double play, and Wrobleski continued to mow down Mets hitters, ultimately facing the minimum through seven innings before giving up a two-out knock to Francisco Alvarez in the eighth.
In the last 10 years, Wrobleski is the fourth Dodgers starter to face the minimum through seven innings, joining Clayton Kershaw (April 13 and July 15, both in 2022), Max Scherzer (Sept. 12, 2021) and Rich Hill (Sept. 10, 2016, and Aug. 23, 2017).