{"id":673901,"date":"2026-04-12T07:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/673901\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T07:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:18:28","slug":"shohei-ohtanis-leadoff-homer-teoscars-3-run-shot-propels-dodgers-over-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/673901\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani’s Leadoff Homer, Teoscar’s 3-Run Shot Propels Dodgers Over Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shohei Ohtani<\/a> hit a leadoff homer and Teoscar Hernandez<\/a> followed with a three-run shot in the first inning of the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> \u2019 seventh victory in eight games, 6-3 over the Texas Rangers<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Emmet Sheehan<\/a> (2-0) pitched six innings of four-hit ball with six strikeouts for the defending World Series<\/a> champion Dodgers, whose 11-3 start is the best in the majors. Will Smith reached base four times and scored two runs.<\/p>\n

Brandon Nimmo<\/a> hit a leadoff homer, another two-run shot and a double for the Rangers, who have lost six of nine with their back-to-back defeats at Dodger Stadium. The rest of Texas’ lineup managed just one hit, a sixth-inning single by Josh Jung<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani crushes leadoff homer to tie score against Rangers \"Dodgers'<\/a> <\/p>\n

Sheehan excelled against almost every Texas hitter except Nimmo, who hammered his second pitch 405 feet to dead center for the 15th leadoff homer of the longtime Mets slugger’s career.<\/p>\n

Ohtani answered moments later with a blast to right for his first homer at Chavez Ravine this season while also extending his on-base streak to 45 games. The four-time MVP has four home runs in eight games after starting the season in a six-game homer drought.<\/p>\n

Five batters later, Hern\u00e1ndez brought home Smith and Freddie Freeman<\/a> with a big shot to left, his third of the season.<\/p>\n

Jack Leiter<\/a> (1-1) yielded five runs on five hits and four walks while failing to get out of the fourth inning for Texas.<\/p>\n

Nimmo’s two-run shot in the sixth trimmed LA’s lead to 5-3 and secured his first multi-homer game for his new team.<\/p>\n

Hern\u00e1ndez doubled and scored on Andy Pages<\/a>‘ single in the eighth.<\/p>\n

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts didn’t give the ninth inning to new closer Edwin Diaz<\/a>, who blew a three-run lead in Friday’s victory. Blake Treinen<\/a> allowed two baserunners and got two outs before Alex Vesia<\/a> struck out Danny Jansen<\/a> to secure his first save.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

RHP Jacob deGrom (0-0, 3.72 ERA) starts the series finale for Texas on Sunday against RHP Roki Sasaki (0-1, 7.00).<\/p>\n

Reporting by The Associated Press.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani hit a leadoff homer and Teoscar Hernandez followed with a three-run shot in the first inning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[7526,1384,5,1692,4789,1087,7907,76469,815,395,57,19,4,85472,149,468,1528,1567,69,3240,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-673901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-alex-vesia","9":"tag-andy-pages","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-blake-treinen","12":"tag-danny-jansen","13":"tag-edwin-diaz","14":"tag-emmet-sheehan","15":"tag-event_recap","16":"tag-freddie-freeman","17":"tag-josh-jung","18":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","19":"tag-major-league-baseball","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-mlb-texas-rangers-vs-los-angeles-dodgers-04-11-2026","22":"tag-rangers","23":"tag-shohei-ohtani","24":"tag-teoscar-hernandez","25":"tag-texas","26":"tag-texas-rangers","27":"tag-texasrangers","28":"tag-world-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116390522107242811","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673901","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=673901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}