LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers carried over their late rally from Wednesday well into Thursday, bludgeoning the A’s 19-2 in a game that provided relief in several ways.

After scoring three runs in each of the first two innings, the Dodgers got two three-run home runs in the third inning alone, by Shohei Ohtani and Andy Pages. Ohtani also hit a two-run home run in the fourth, his 15th of the season to tie for the major league lead.

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Thursday was the second of at least four Ohtani bobblehead nights this season. Ohtani also homered in the first such game, on April 2, that time in walk-off fashion.

“We’re going going to need to add some more,” manager Dave Roberts joked. “I guess four or five bobbleheads per year isn’t enough.”

Max Muncy, who homered in his final at-bat on Wednesday, homered again in his first at-bat on Thursday, and also added an RBI single.

But it wasn’t just home runs. Or the steals by Mookie Betts and Hyeseong Kim in the first two innings. On the Dodgers’ first six singles of the night with anyone on base, a runner advanced two bases (first to third, scoring from second). The Dodgers entered Thursday ranked third in the majors by taking the extra base 51 percent of the time, relative to a league average of 42 percent.

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It was a veritable parade around the bases.

The game was so lopsided, so early, that Betts, Freddie Freeman, and Andy Pages were out of the game by the fourth inning, having already batted three times each!

A’s starter Osvaldo Bido was knocked out after allowing six runs while getting five outs. They turned to Jason Alexander to get as many outs as he could, and he got them through the fourth inning, but allowed nine runs along the way.

The Dodgers had no such problems on the mound, buoyed by recent reinforcements. Matt Sauer started and allowed two runs in his four innings. Anthony Banda provided a bridge with a scoreless fifth inning, which cleared the way for Thursday call-up Justin Wrobleski to get the final 12 outs, and he did so in scoreless fashion.

Notes

Dalton Rushing walked and singled in his first two major league plate appearances and also singled in the eighth inning. He scored three times, tying Judge McRedie (1903) and Gavin Lux (2019) for the most by a Dodger in their major league debut.

Ohtani drove in six runs, tied for second-most in a game ever by a Dodgers leadoff hitter with Mookie Betts on March 21, 2024 in Seoul. The only Dodgers leadoff batter with more RBI was Ohtani himself, with 10 last September 19 in “the greatest game in baseball history.”

Ohtani also struck out against A’s catcher Jhonny Pereda in the eighth inning. Baseball contains multitudes.

Muncy reached base four times, and had season highs with three hits (also April 5) and four RBI (one more than Wednesday).

Hyeseong Kim reached base five times with two singles, and RBI double and his first two major league walks. He scored four times.

Nineteen runs and five home runs are season highs for the Dodgers. Eighteen hits tied a season high, done two other times.

Thursday particulars

Home runs: Max Muncy (3), Shohei Ohtani 2 (15), Andy Pages (8), James Outman (2); Max Schuemann (1)

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WP — Justin Wrobleski (1-1): 4 IP, 1 hit, 4 strikeouts

LP — Osvaldo Bido (2-4): 1⅔ IP, 5 hits, 6 runs, 2 walks, 2 strikeouts

Up next

Another series, another American League team from California comes to Los Angeles. This time it’s the Angels at Dodger Stadium, beginning Friday night (7:10 p.m.; SportsNet LA, FanDuel Sports Network West, MLB Network) with Dustin May on the mound for the Dodgers and Jack Kochanowicz pitching for the Angels.

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