{"id":667037,"date":"2026-04-06T20:44:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667037\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T20:44:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:44:34","slug":"dodgers-sweep-nationals-behind-explosive-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667037\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers Sweep Nationals Behind Explosive Offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a three game series against the Washington Nationals, the Los Angeles Dodgers scored a combined 31 runs with a 1.066 OPS to sweep the three-game series<\/p>\n<p>The offense came out in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers swept the Washington Nationals in a three-game weekend series, where the Dodgers had a team OPS of 1.066. <\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers won 13-6 on Friday, 10-5 on Saturday and 8-6 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">438 feet from Shohei. \ud83d\ude33 <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d1W2fMJLdc\">pic.twitter.com\/d1W2fMJLdc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dodgers\/status\/2040888605208645701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among all the stars, it\u2019s been the young center fielder Andy Pages who has been Los Angeles\u2019 best hitter as of late. Through the first nine games, Pages is slashing .471\/.500\/.794 with a 1.294, three home runs and 10 RBIs with a 269 OPS+ and a 0.9 fWAR.<\/p>\n<p>Against the Nationals, Pages had three hits with a home run in game one and two, driving in game two runs in game one and three runs in game two.<\/p>\n<p>DH\/SP Shohei Ohtani, who started off the season slowly offensively, had six hits in the series, including his first two home runs of the season. He also drove in six runs and raised his OPS to .880. Outfielder Kyle Tucker also hit his first home run of the season \u2014 and Dodgers career \u2014 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The most exciting game was on Sunday, when starting pitcher Roki Sasaki got tagged for six runs through five innings. Down 6-2 heading into the eighth, infielder Santiago Espinal drove in two on a single before Tucker grounded into a fielder\u2019s choice to tie the game. Ohtani then hit a sacrifice fly to lead and then outfielder Teoscar Hernandez homered in the ninth for an insurance run. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-altfont has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-xs-font-size wp-elements-a392843e06eac12cec56e735f4f8219f has-lg-margin-top\" style=\"letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase\">Scroll to continue reading<\/p>\n<p>Closer Edwin Diaz then pitched a one-two-three inning to secure the sweep.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Dodgers have clawed their way back to take a 7-6 lead on this Shohei Ohtani sac fly after trailing 6-1 in this game <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UJECxI0jGx\">pic.twitter.com\/UJECxI0jGx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Talkin&#8217; Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TalkinBaseball_\/status\/2040916530062414069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In unfortunate news for the Dodgers, though, the Dodgers placed shortstop Mookie Betts on the 10-day IL with a strained oblique after he left Saturday\u2019s game early. The Dodgers recalled utility Hyeseong Kim from Triple-A with Betts out.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers\u2019 next series starts tonight in a World Series rematch against the Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Center at 4:07 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a three game series against the Washington Nationals, the Los Angeles Dodgers scored a combined 31 runs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2398],"tags":[1384,5,39,1087,29,4,1526,415,110,468,1528,70,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-667037","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-dodgers","11":"tag-edwin-diaz","12":"tag-kyle-tucker","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-mookie-betts","15":"tag-nationals","16":"tag-roki-sasaki","17":"tag-shohei-ohtani","18":"tag-teoscar-hernandez","19":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","20":"tag-washington","21":"tag-washington-nationals","22":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116359716290707700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667037","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=667037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}