Shohei Ohtani provided the winning blow on Friday night, but that was one of many big hits in a wild, high-scoring affair between the Dodgers and Diamondbacks.
It wasn’t even the first extra-base hit of the game for Ohtani, who also doubled to lead off the game and scored in the first inning and doubled home a run in the third. Friday was Ohtani’s second game this season with three extra-base hits.
Ohtani also homered in Thursday’s series opener, and has at least one extra-base hit in each of his last seven games, dating back to last Saturday in Atlanta. Seven games in a row matches Ohtani’s longest extra-base hit streak of his career, done also last June 16-22 and in 2023 with the Angels. In his last seven games,
Ohtani is 12-for-29 (.414/.514/1.138) with five home runs, four doubles, and a triple with 11 runs scored and 10 RBI.
Freddie Freeman has been about as hot for even a bit longer than Ohtani, including a third-inning double on Friday and the single that started the Dodgers’ six-run ninth-inning rally. The first baseman has a 14-game hit streak going, during which Freeman is 25-for-53 with four home runs, four doubles, a triple, 13 runs scored, and 19 RBI, hitting .472/.532/.811.
Freeman’s double on Friday was the 899th extra-base hit of his career, most among active players. He’s also the active MLB leader in hits (2,304), runs scored (1,318), doubles (516), RBI (1,262), and total bases (3,937).
With his next double, triple, or home run, Freeman will be the 70th player in MLB history with 900 extra-base hits.
Saturday game info
Teams: Dodgers at Diamondbacks
Stadium: Chase Field, Phoenix
Start time: 5:10 p.m. PT
TV: SportsNet LA
Radio: AM 570 (English), KTNQ 1020 AM (Spanish)