Shohei Ohtani homered and hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly, and the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied from a five-run deficit to defeat the Washington Nationals 8-6 and complete a three-game sweep Sunday.<\/p>\n
Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez and Dalton Rushing also homered for Los Angeles, which has won four of its last five.<\/p>\n
Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. and James Wood went deep for Washington, which has lost its last five.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers scored four runs in the eighth off Cionel Perez (0-1), who loaded the bases before Santiago Espinal laced a two-run single to left-center. Perez was pulled without retiring a batter after he walked Will Smith, and Clayton Beeter surrendered Kyle Tucker\u2019s RBI fielder\u2019s choice to tie it at 6-6.<\/p>\n
Ohtani then lifted a fly to left that brought in Espinal to make it 7-6. Ohtani went 2 for 4 and finished the series 6 for 15 with two homers and six RBIs. He has 17 RBIs in 17 games against the Nationals since joining the Dodgers.<\/p>\n
Jack Dreyer (1-0) pitched a scoreless seventh for Los Angeles. Edwin Diaz worked the ninth for his third save.<\/p>\n
Ohtani opened the scoring with a line shot to center in the third inning against Nationals starter Foster Griffin. It was the Dodgers\u2019 only run against Griffin, who struck out six in five innings.<\/p>\n
Garc\u00eda hit a two-run blast in the third against Roki Sasaki, while Wood broke out of a 1-for-16 slump with a three-run shot in the fourth to make it 6-1.<\/p>\n
Sasaki allowed six runs in five innings. He struck out five.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers played for the first time this season\u00a0without shortstop Mookie Betts, who was placed on the injured list with a right oblique strain.<\/p>\n
The game began after a rain delay of two-plus hours.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Justin Wrobleski (0-0, 6.75 ERA) starts for Los Angeles against Max Scherzer (1-0, 1.50) the opener of a three-game series at Toronto.<\/p>\n
Washington’s Zack Littell (0-1, 5.40) starts Monday at home against St. Louis starter Andre Pallante (1-0, 0.00).<\/p>\n
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