At the Dodgers' hotel on Friday afternoon, hours before he dazzled for seven scoreless innings at Citi Field in his Dodgers debut, Yu Darvish met with general manager Farhan Zaidi, the man who engineered the blockbuster deal with the Rangers that brought the electric right-hander to Los Angeles minutes before the non-waiver Trade Deadline.

At the end of a 6-0 Dodgers' win in the series opener in New York, in which Darvish struck out 10 Mets while holding them to three singles and a walk, he had his answer if this was to work.