Yamamoto is the first Dodgers pitcher to win the illustrious "POTM" award since Clayton Kershaw did it in April 2023. All-Star catcher Will Smith had some very high praise for Yamamoto when asked about him via Dodgers reporter Jack Harris:

The Los Angeles Dodgers are seeing a new kind of dominance from Yoshinobu Yamamoto and his teammates are noticing.

Yamamoto didn’t allow a hit until there were two outs in the sixth inning, flirting with the third no-hitter of his professional career and his first since his eye-popping contract brought him stateside. April’s National League Pitcher of the Month lowered his ERA to 0.90.