{"id":662982,"date":"2026-04-04T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662982\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T16:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:03:07","slug":"ohtani-and-tucker-hit-2-of-the-dodgers-5-homers-in-rout-of-the-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662982\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohtani and Tucker hit 2 of the Dodgers’ 5 homers in rout of the Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Shohei Ohtani hit a three-run homer<\/a> in the third inning, and Kyle Tucker, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman went deep as well as the Los Angeles Dodgers pummeled the Washington Nationals 13-6 on Friday.<\/p>\n

Andy Pages also homered for the Dodgers, but it was the top of their order \u2014 which had been struggling \u2014 that really broke out. Ohtani hadn\u2019t driven in a run all season before hitting a drive to right that tied the game at 3. Betts\u2019 two-run shot later that inning put Los Angeles ahead to stay.<\/p>\n

It was 9-4 after Freeman\u2019s two-run homer in the fifth. Tucker\u2019s first home run as a member of the Dodgers was a solo shot that made it 12-4 in the seventh.<\/p>\n

Miles Mikolas (0-2) allowed a career-high 11 runs on 11 hits in 4 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

Emmet Sheehan (1-0) gave up a three-run homer to CJ Abrams in the first, but the Nationals only scored once more in his 5 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

Washington lost its home opener for the fifth straight year. This was the most runs the Nationals have allowed in a home opener since moving to Washington in 2005.<\/p>\n

Sheehan allowed four runs and seven hits with three walks and two strikeouts.<\/p>\n

Ohtani extended his on-base streak to 38 games dating to last season. He was able to keep it going despite being just 3 for 18 entering Friday\u2019s game. After his home run, he added a single the following inning. He also hit a sacrifice fly in the ninth.<\/p>\n

Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez, who hit an RBI double in the fifth, was taken out after striking out in the sixth. Hernandez and Tucker had three hits each.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Tyler Glasnow (0-0) starts for the Dodgers on Saturday against Washington\u2019s Jake Irvin (1-0).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Shohei Ohtani hit a three-run homer in the third inning, and Kyle Tucker, Mookie Betts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[1384,5,2178,497,5859,11189,7907,815,496,29,57,4771,1212,123,4,256,1526,415,468,185,1528,786,1568,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-662982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-andy-pages","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-cj-abrams","12":"tag-dc-wire","13":"tag-district-of-columbia","14":"tag-emmet-sheehan","15":"tag-freddie-freeman","16":"tag-jake-irvin","17":"tag-kyle-tucker","18":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","19":"tag-maryland","20":"tag-md-state-wire","21":"tag-miles-mikolas","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-mlb-baseball","24":"tag-mookie-betts","25":"tag-nationals","26":"tag-shohei-ohtani","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-teoscar-hernandez","29":"tag-tyler-glasnow","30":"tag-virginia","31":"tag-washington","32":"tag-washington-nationals","33":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116347286754686570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662982","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=662982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}