WASHINGTON – Two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani got his first home run and RBI of the MLB season Friday, blasting a game-tying three-run shot in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 13-6 comeback win over the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n
Ohtani, who amassed 54 and 55 homers respectively in the past two years, launched a big fly with one out in the third inning at Nationals Park as he pulled a 1-0 changeup off former Yomiuri Giant Miles Mikolas (0-2) to tie the game at 3-3.<\/p>\n
It came in Ohtani’s 28th trip to the plate for the defending World Series champion Dodgers this season after he went without an extra-base hit in the opening six games with only three singles, having gone deep three times for Japan during the World Baseball Classic in March.<\/p>\n
Mookie Betts’s two-run homer also in the third gave the Dodgers a 5-3 lead, while Andy Pages in the fourth and Freddie Freeman in the fifth blasted two-run shots of their own to stretch the lead.<\/p>\n
Kyle Tucker had a solo homer in the seventh before Ohtani, who singled in the fourth for his first multiple-hit outing, hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly with no outs in the ninth for his fourth RBI and the game’s last run.<\/p>\n
Rookie Kazuma Okamoto went hitless for the first time after seven MLB games as he struck out four times in the Toronto Blue Jays’ 5-4 walk-off loss in 10 innings against the Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON – Two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani got his first home run and RBI of the MLB season Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,39,1165,4332,4333,774,57,3224,4331,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-662502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-dodgers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-dodgers","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-dodgers","12":"tag-ladodgers","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangelesdodgers","17":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116345782887162900","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}