{"id":274549,"date":"2026-04-18T19:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274549\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T19:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:13:07","slug":"los-angeles-dodgers-historic-start-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274549\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Dodgers’ Historic Start By The Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Per usual, the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> are cracking skulls and taking names, but they’re doing so at an even higher level this season.<\/p>\n

In defeating the Colorado Rockies<\/a> on Friday night, Los Angeles marked<\/a> its first 15-4 start since 1977.<\/p>\n

Here’s the Dodgers’ electric start to the 2026 MLB<\/a> season by the numbers, entering Apr. 18’s slate of games:<\/p>\n

0: Relievers Blake Treinen<\/a> and Alex Vesia<\/a> have each given up zero runs in eight appearances apiece.<\/p>\n

0.50: Through his first three starts, two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani<\/a> has recorded an 0.50 ERA, 0.72 WHIP, 18 strikeouts and held opponents to a .113 batting average (18.0 innings pitched).<\/p>\n

1: The Dodgers’ offense leads MLB with 35 home runs, 320 total bases, a .287 batting average, a .364 on-base percentage, a .499 slugging percentage and an .863 OPS.<\/p>\n

1.04: After leading MLB with 10 blown saves \u2014 and posting a 4.74 ERA \u2014 in 2025, left-handed reliever Tanner Scott<\/a> sports a 1.04 ERA and 0.58 WHIP through his first 10 appearances this season.<\/p>\n

1.05: The Dodgers’ combined 1.05 WHIP and 6.2 hits surrendered per nine innings leads the sport.<\/p>\n

4: Of backup catcher Dalton Rushing<\/a>‘s nine hits, four of them are home runs; he owns a .529\/.556\/1.353 slash line.<\/p>\n

5: The Dodgers have won five of their first six series.<\/p>\n

6: Max Muncy<\/a> leads the team with six home runs, which have all been solo shots.<\/p>\n

8: In what was his second MLB start since June 6, 2025, Justin Wrobleski<\/a>, who has been a primary reliever for the Dodgers, pitched eight scoreless innings and gave up just two baserunners (two hits) against the New York Mets<\/a> on Apr. 13.<\/p>\n

9: Los Angeles has held its opponents to two or fewer runs in nine games.<\/p>\n

21: Outfielder Andy Pages<\/a> has totaled a team-high 21 RBIs, while blasting five home runs, stealing three bases and sporting a .412\/.453\/.691 slash line.<\/p>\n

52: The Dodgers have a +52 run differential, which is second in MLB.<\/p>\n

78.9: At 15-4, Los Angeles owns the best record in the sport (78.9% winning percentage).<\/p>\n

143: The Dodgers’ 143 OPS+ leads the majors.<\/p>\n

188: Opponents are hitting just .188 against the Dodgers’ starting rotation, which also sports a mere 0.99 WHIP. Both statistics are first in MLB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Per usual, the Los Angeles Dodgers are cracking skulls and taking names, but they’re doing so at an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6132,48,52,51,47,53,50,49,3834,422],"class_list":{"0":"post-274549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-andy-pages","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","14":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","15":"tag-los-angeles-news","16":"tag-major-league-baseball","17":"tag-shohei-ohtani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274549","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=274549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}