{"id":127691,"date":"2025-09-08T00:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/127691\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T00:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:54:10","slug":"dodgers-back-in-the-win-column-behind-the-combined-forces-of-ohtani-and-kershaw-by-megan-garcia-sep-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/127691\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers back in the win column behind the combined forces of Ohtani and Kershaw | by Megan Garcia | Sep, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Megan<\/a>Press enter or click to view image in full size\"\"Shohei Ohtani hit two home runs on Sunday for his fourth multi-homer game this season. (Alyssa McDaniel\/MLB)<\/p>\n

By Megan Garcia<\/p>\n

The Dodgers are back in the win column. A five-game losing streak filled with heartbreaks and stunning lows is over.<\/p>\n

They beat the Orioles 5\u20132 to salvage the series in Baltimore on Sunday. It\u2019s the first time in six games that the offense produced more than three runs. The Dodgers end the road trip with a 1\u20135 record.<\/p>\n

Their lone win was a result of Shohei Ohtani\u2019s power at the plate and Clayton Kershaw\u2019s command on the mound. It increased their lead in the National League West to 1 1\/2 games. The second-place Padres play the Rockies on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cShohei starting the game with a homer was huge. You could see the life in the dugout, which we saw last night,\u201d said manager Dave Roberts. \u201cClayton picked up where Yoshinobu left off and really competed, like he always does.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ohtani clubbed two home runs for his fourth multi-homer game this season. His leadoff home run marked his 12th of the season, which tied Mookie Betts (2023) for the most in a single season in franchise history.<\/p>\n

His next homer, in the third inning, was against a 2\u20130 fastball inside the strike zone. He\u2019s now hitting .286 (77-for-269) against fastballs this season. Ohtani\u2019s 48 home runs trail Phillies\u2019 slugger Kyle Schwarber, who leads the National League with 49.<\/p>\n

Betts followed Ohtani in the next at-bat against Orioles starter Tomoyuki Sugano with his 16th home run. Ohtani and Betts each finished with two runs batted in.<\/p>\n

The offense was enough to pick up Kershaw in his 10th win of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just gave us everything we needed.\u201d Roberts said of Kershaw.<\/p>\n

Kershaw faced the Orioles for the first time in his 448th career start. He\u2019s now pitched against every team in baseball for the Dodgers throughout his 18-year career.<\/p>\n

The left-hander\u2019s eight strikeouts on Sunday were a season high for him, with his curveball getting four punchouts. Kershaw induced 16 swings and misses against the Orioles for another season mark. His slider recorded the most with nine whiffs.<\/p>\n

He finished with two earned runs on four hits and one walk in 5 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to get through six (innings) there. I made two bad pitches there \u2014 the last two sliders \u2014 so frustrating to not get out of there,\u201d Kershaw said. \u201cOverall, it was a decent day, stuff-wise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since Aug. 1, Kershaw has a 3.00 ERA (12 ER\/36 IP) and 30 strikeouts in seven starts. He\u2019s pitched into the sixth inning in five of those starts.<\/p>\n

Kershaw now has 12 seasons with double-digit wins in his career. Half of his wins came in August, where he went 5\u20130 in five starts with a 1.88 ERA (5 ER\/28 2\/3 IP).<\/p>\n

\u201cJust keep showing up, keep going on the field, keep playing. We\u2019re too good for it not to turn around,\u201d Kershaw said. \u201cJust a complete performance today by everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edgardo Henriquez, Justin Wrobleski and Jack Dreyer combined for three scoreless relief innings with seven strikeouts and four hits.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers return to Los Angeles to face the Rockies in a three-game series beginning Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Press enter or click to view image in full sizeShohei Ohtani hit two home runs on Sunday for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-127691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}