{"id":700654,"date":"2026-05-28T19:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700654\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T19:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:40:12","slug":"shohei-ohtani-pitches-6-no-hit-innings-but-still-wasnt-satisfied-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700654\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani pitches 6 no-hit innings, but still wasn\u2019t satisfied \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shohei Ohtani<\/a> tossed six innings of no-hit ball, gave himself an early lead with a home run, and still wasn’t satisfied with his performance.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>‘ two-way superstar dropped some expletives that were picked up by the on-field mic as he struggled with his command in a 4-1 win over the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

He struck out seven, walked four and gave up an earned run in the fourth inning while visibly fuming on the mound. Ohtani (5-2) earned his third consecutive victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust command was off, and I just felt like I was battling the lack of it, and frustration,\u201d Ohtani said through a translator. \u201cJust way too many walks, and of course you want to avoid the hits, but the result of that was a lot of walks, and that\u2019s something that I just don\u2019t really want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ohtani\u2019s 19 1\/3-inning scoreless streak ended on Willi Castro\u2019s groundout to second, raising his ERA to 0.82.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know they say the same thing a lot, but it\u2019s just the feel,” Ohtani said. “When something\u2019s off offensively, defensively, I could tell, and I just really couldn\u2019t find it.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Ohtani and Will Klein combined for seven hitless innings, Tanner Scott allowed a two-out single to right by Tyler Freeman, ending the no-hit bid.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe takeaway, if any, the positive is that they didn\u2019t really have any hard hits,\u201d Ohtani said. \u201cThe bullpen\u2019s been just consistent, done a great job all year. We\u2019re setting the tone to where as long as we have the lead by the seventh, we just hand the baton and win the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ohtani homered leading off the bottom of the first inning, making him the only starting pitcher in major league history with a leadoff home run in back-to-back starts and the only one with a leadoff home run in any game.<\/p>\n

Ohtani\u2019s 28th career leadoff homer and fourth this season came exactly a week after the four-time MVP went deep on the first pitch of the game before throwing five innings of three-hit ball against the Padres in San Diego on May 20.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think he put forth his best effort tonight as far as discipline,\u201d manager Dave Roberts said. “I think there was a 3-2 ball down in the zone, he could\u2019ve taken the walk. Another time I think he had count leverage and he grounded out. But I think in general, in the last few weeks, he\u2019s in a good spot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roberts was asked if he could recall any pitcher be as mad as Ohtani after throwing six no-hit innings.<\/p>\n

\u201cA guy that wore number 22 that we remember. Very similar,\u201d he said, referring to three-time Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw, who retired last year after 18 seasons with the Dodgers. \u201cThat’s what makes guys like that special.”<\/p>\n

Ohtani similarly struggled with his command last week in San Diego, yet despite getting into bad counts he still pitches his way out of trouble.<\/p>\n

Roberts credits Ohtani’s velocity for avoiding costly mistakes. He routinely touched the upper 90s against the Rockies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sweeper, he\u2019s still just got enough stuff to make hitters uncomfortable and can use the curveball to slow them down,\u201d Roberts said. “Once he gets guys into scoring position, he really bears down and the command seems to come to life. But this guy is just a crazy good competitor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani tossed six innings of no-hit ball, gave himself an early lead with a home run, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,5138,1187,591,5149,85],"class_list":["post-700654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dodgers","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700654","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=700654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}