LOS ANGELES \u2014 Shohei Ohtani launched his 53rd home run to tie for the National League lead, and the Los Angeles Dodgers erased an early four-run deficit Saturday night in a 7-5 victory over the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n
Max Muncy’s two-run homer in the first inning pulled Los Angeles to 4-2. Michael Conforto also went deep and Tommy Edman hit a tiebreaking shot for the playoff-bound Dodgers, who won their fourth straight and lead the NL West by four games over San Diego with seven to play.<\/p>\n
San Francisco stayed four games behind the New York Mets for the last NL wild card, with Arizona and Cincinnati also ahead of the Giants.<\/p>\n
Dodgers starter Tyler Glasnow (4-3) didn\u2019t have command at the outset and loaded the bases in the first. Bryce Eldridge had a memorable first major league hit with a three-run double.<\/p>\n
Drew Gilbert drew a bases-loaded walk to make it 4-0, but Glasnow recovered and threw four scoreless innings after that.<\/p>\n
Jack Dreyer pitched a perfect ninth for his fourth save.<\/p>\n
Conforto hit a solo homer in the fourth and finished with three hits. Freddie Freeman singled home Ohtani with the tying run later in the inning.<\/p>\n
Edman gave Los Angeles a 5-4 lead with a solo homer off the left-field foul pole against reliever Joel Peguero (3-1) in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Ohtani’s homer off Peguero made it 6-4 in the sixth, and Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez added an RBI single.<\/p>\n
Rafael Devers homered for the Giants in the seventh.<\/p>\n
Ohtani pulled even with Philadelphia slugger Kyle Schwarber when the Japanese star connected for his 53rd home run, a 403-foot shot to left field in the sixth. It was Ohtani\u2019s 29th homer at Dodger Stadium this season, a franchise record. He topped his own mark of 28 last year, when he finished with a career-high 54 on the way to winning his third MVP award and first in the National League.<\/p>\n
Ohtani scored his career-high 140th run of the season.<\/p>\n
Giants RHP Trevor McDonald (0-0, 9.00 ERA) makes his second appearance this season and first career start on Sunday. RHP Emmet Sheehan (6-3, 3.17) goes for the Dodgers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Shohei Ohtani launched his 53rd home run to tie for the National League lead, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-158661","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\/158661","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=158661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}