{"id":251611,"date":"2026-04-04T12:48:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/251611\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T12:48:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:48:47","slug":"shohei-ohtani-hits-a-3-run-homer-to-drive-in-his-1st-runs-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/251611\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani hits a 3-run homer to drive in his 1st runs of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Shohei Ohtani hit a three-run homer in the third inning Friday for his first RBIs of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The two-way star had 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 Los Angeles Dodgers 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":251612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,53,1334,3563],"class_list":["post-251611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}