{"id":103553,"date":"2025-08-29T04:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/103553\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T04:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:28:14","slug":"shohei-ohtani-gets-first-victory-with-la-dodgers-striking-out-season-high-9-against-cincinnati-reds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/103553\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani gets first victory with LA Dodgers, striking out season-high 9 against Cincinnati Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                Facebook<\/p>\n<p>                Tweet<\/p>\n<p>        <a class=\"social-share_labelled-list__share\" href=\"mailto:?subject=CNN%20content%20share&amp;body=Check%20out%20this%20article%3A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F08%2F28%2Fsport%2Fbaseball-mlb-shohei-ohtani-dodgers-reds-intl\" data-type=\"email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"share with email\" title=\"Share with email\"><\/p>\n<p>                Email<br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Link<\/p>\n<p>      Los Angeles<br \/>\n      AP<br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmev4ylyc001v26qm5ndgg3bq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/08\/26\/sport\/baseball-mlb-shohei-ohtani-high-fives-heckler-intl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a> struck out a season-high nine in five innings for his first victory with the Dodgers as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/06\/20\/sport\/mlb-suspensions-dodgers-padres-spt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles<\/a> beat Cincinnati 5-1 on Wednesday night to become the first team to sweep the Reds this season.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmev53o480002356np5onn3h7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Dodgers won their fourth straight and extended their NL West lead to two games over San Diego, which lost 4-3 at Seattle.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmev53o480003356nttrewllw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Ohtani (1-1) bounced back against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/04\/01\/sport\/elly-de-la-cruz-torpedo-bat-cincinnati-reds-mlb-spt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Reds<\/a> in his 11th start of the season and first in which he went the minimum five innings to qualify for a win. The victory was his first since August 9, 2023, with the Angels against San Francisco.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmev53o480004356n854jerfj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The two-way star allowed one run and two hits while walking two on a season-high 87 pitches, 53 for strikes, while retiring his final eight batters on his bobblehead night. At the plate, he was 1-for-5 with a run.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmev53o480005356nz6zmgox3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Reds led 1-0 on Noelvi Marte\u2019s 410-foot homer on the first pitch by Ohtani in the third. It was the third homer Ohtani has allowed this season.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmev53o480006356ngzy5ihfv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/06\/20\/sport\/los-angeles-dodgers-immigration-spt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Dodgers<\/a> scored four runs to take a 4-1 lead in the fourth. Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez, starting in place of injured Freddie Freeman, had a two-run single up the middle. It was the third straight single allowed by Nick Lodolo (8-7), who retired the first nine batters he faced.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmev53o480007356nali3al0h@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Lodolo intentionally walked Miguel Rojas, and Dalton Rushing followed with a two-run single. Michael Conforto added a solo homer in the eighth.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmev541gc000d356nr8fqdpqv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Ohtani pitched his way out of trouble in the second. With one out, he walked Spencer Steer and Jose Trevino back-to-back. They moved up on two wild pitches \u2013 Ohtani\u2019s seventh and eighth of the season \u2013 before Ke\u2019Bryan Hayes and Matt McLain went down swinging to end the inning.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmev541gc000e356nhd2jwmm8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Los Angeles pitchers struck out a franchise-record 19 batters for a nine-inning game.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmev541gc000f356n68tmg31q@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            After off days for both teams, Reds RHP Zack Littell (9-8, 3.62 ERA) starts Friday at home against St. Louis. Dodgers LHP Blake Snell (3-2, 1.97) starts Friday against visiting Arizona.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link Los Angeles AP \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Shohei Ohtani struck out a season-high nine in five innings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-103553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}