DENVER, Colorado – Shohei Ohtani extended his remarkable on-base streak to 49 games as the Los Angeles Dodgers overpowered the Colorado Rockies 7-1 in Friday’s series opener in Denver.<\/p>\n
The two-way superstar contributed to a rough night for Samurai Japan teammate Tomoyuki Sugano, who was charged with the loss at a wintery Coors Field, which had been covered in snow hours earlier.<\/p>\n
Ohtani led off the game with a hard-hit double down the right field line before coming home on Will Smith’s sacrifice fly to open the scoring.<\/p>\n
The four-time MVP extended his record for the longest on-base streak by a Japanese-born major leaguer and took another step toward the Dodgers’ franchise record of 58 straight games, set by Hall of Famer Duke Snider in 1954.<\/p>\n
Ohtani also lined a second-inning single to right in his 2-for-5 outing.<\/p>\n
Sugano (1-1) gave up five runs on nine hits and two walks over four innings. The damage included a solo home run to Max Muncy in the top of the second.<\/p>\n
“It was the coldest weather I’ve ever pitched in, but the conditions were the same for the other team, so I don’t want to make excuses,” former Yomiuri Giants ace Sugano said.<\/p>\n
“The Dodgers’ lineup had good plate discipline after getting ahead in the count. They don’t let a pitching mistake go unpunished.”<\/p>\n
Los Angeles starter Tyler Glasnow (2-0) twirled seven innings of one-run ball, allowing just two hits while fanning seven.<\/p>\n
At Sutter Health Park, Munetaka Murakami belted the first grand slam of his MLB career for the Chicago White Sox in a 9-2 win against the Athletics.<\/p>\n
Murakami sent a mammoth fly ball over the batter’s eye for his sixth home run in the top of the seventh inning as part of a 3-for-5 outing.<\/p>\n
The early season struggles continued for New York Mets starter Kodai Senga (0-3) at Wrigley Field, where he was knocked out after just 3-1\/3 innings of a 12-4 loss to the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n
The Japanese right-hander gave up two home runs among six hits, while allowing seven runs, six earned. Chicago outfielder Seiya Suzuki drove in the opening run with a line-drive single in the bottom of the first.<\/p>\n
At Fenway Park, Masataka Yoshida pinch-hit a clutch 10th-inning RBI single to give the Boston Red Sox a 1-0 walk-off victory over the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER, Colorado – Shohei Ohtani extended his remarkable on-base streak to 49 games as the Los Angeles Dodgers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,4316,4,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-678258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-rockies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-rockies","11":"tag-coloradorockies","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-rockies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116425015176138765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678258","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=678258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}