WASHINGTON – Shohei Ohtani homered and drove in the go-ahead run as the Los Angeles Dodgers overcame a costly outing from Roki Sasaki to beat the Washington Nationals 8-6 and sweep their three-game series on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Making his second start of the season, Sasaki gave up a career-high six earned runs but persevered through five innings to limit the burden on the Los Angeles bullpen.<\/p>\n
He surrendered a two-run home run to Luis Garcia Jr in the third and a three-run blast to James Wood the following inning.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old right-hander did not factor in the decision after leaving the mound with the Dodgers down 6-1, having struck out five while allowing five hits and three walks.<\/p>\n
“I struggled in the later part because I couldn’t consistently throw my fastball and forkball effectively,” said Sasaki, who conceded his splitter in the middle of the zone to Wood had been “simply too easy to hit.”<\/p>\n
“I want to play the way I’m capable of playing,” he said.<\/p>\n
Ohtani broke the ice in the top of the third with his second home run of the season, a solo shot that soared an estimated 438 feet over center field off a cutter from former Yomiuri Giants left-hander Foster Griffin.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers rallied ahead with four runs in the eighth inning, tying the game 6-6 on Kyle Tucker’s forceout before Ohtani plated the go-ahead run with his sacrifice fly. The two-way superstar finished 2-for-4 with two RBIs.<\/p>\n
At Coors Field, Tomoyuki Sugano (1-0) earned his first win of the season for the Colorado Rockies after throwing six innings of one-run ball in which he struck out five, while allowing four hits and a walk in a 4-1 victory against the Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n
Kodai Senga did not factor in the New York Mets’ 5-2 win against the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park after allowing two runs on five hits and two walks over 5-2\/3 innings, while striking out seven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON – Shohei Ohtani homered and drove in the go-ahead run as the Los Angeles Dodgers overcame a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,39,1165,4332,4333,774,57,3224,4331,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-666024","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\/116356484069184325","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666024","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=666024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}