{"id":580149,"date":"2026-04-03T19:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/580149\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:19:13","slug":"dodgers-shohei-ohtani-hits-three-run-homer-to-drive-in-first-runs-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/580149\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers&#8217; Shohei Ohtani hits three-run homer to drive in first runs of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/shohei-ohtani\/80de60c9-74e3-4a50-b128-b3dc7456a254\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"80de60c9-74e3-4a50-b128-b3dc7456a254\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a> hit a three-run homer in the third inning Friday for his first RBIs of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0two-way star\u00a0had been off to a slow start at the plate. Ohtani was just 3 for 19 after striking out to lead off the game, but with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/los-angeles-dodgers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"los-angeles-dodgers\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> down 3-0 in the third at Washington, he hit a 401-foot drive to right to tie the game.<\/p>\n<p>Mookie Betts, who at that point was 3 for 23 on the season, hit a two-run shot two batters later off Nationals starter Miles Mikolas.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers entered the game with a 4-2 record despite their struggles at the top of the lineup. Ohtani, Kyle Tucker and Betts all entered the game batting under .200, and Freddie Freeman (.208) wasn&#8217;t much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Shohei Ohtani hit a three-run homer in the third inning Friday for his first RBIs of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-580149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580149","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=580149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}