{"id":165274,"date":"2025-09-24T07:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/165274\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T07:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:03:07","slug":"dodgers-bullpen-blows-another-stellar-start-by-shohei-ohtani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/165274\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers’ bullpen blows another stellar start by Shohei Ohtani"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX — Shohei Ohtani<\/a> is looking like a formidable force on the mound for the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> as October baseball approaches, while their bullpen continues to be a liability.<\/p>\n

The two-way star had his third straight scoreless outing on Tuesday night against the Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a>, throwing a season-high six innings and striking out eight.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers led 4-0 when Ohtani left the game, but the D-backs rallied against the bullpen for a 5-4 victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arizona trailed 4-3 entering the ninth, before Jorge Barrosa<\/a> tied the game with a sacrifice fly to deep left. Then Geraldo Perdomo<\/a> ripped a two-out single to left field off Dodgers closer Tanner Scott<\/a> that scored Tim Tawa<\/a> from second base for the winning run.<\/p>\n

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The 31-year-old Ohtani has slowly built up his pitch count as he returns from elbow surgery that kept him off the mound for the entire 2024 season. He threw a season-high 91 pitches in his 100th career big league mound start.<\/p>\n

The right-hander’s fastball was consistently in the 98-100 mph range, hitting 101.2 on one delivery and often overpowering the D-backs hitters. He gave up five hits, all singles. He also started an athletic double play to end the fifth, darting off the mound to field a soft grounder from James McCann<\/a> and firing to Tommy Edman<\/a> at second, who threw to first.<\/p>\n

Ohtani, who has 53 homers this season, batted leadoff and went 0-for-3 with a walk in his first four plate appearances.<\/p>\n

Ohtani worked five hitless innings in his last start, on Sept. 16 against the Philadelphia Phillies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX — Shohei Ohtani is looking like a formidable force on the mound for the Los Angeles Dodgers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-165274","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\/165274","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=165274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}