LOS ANGELES \u2014 It was a rough West Coast road trip for the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n
Freddie Freeman hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the sixth inning after the Rays scored four runs off a banged-up Shohei Ohtani in the Los Angeles Dodgers\u2019 5-4 win on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Freeman\u2019s 407-foot shot to center off reliever Kevin Kelly (4-3) rescued Ohtani, who trailed 4-2 after giving up five hits and four runs in the fifth.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers swept the three-game series, just their second-ever sweep of the Rays and first since August 2013.<\/p>\n
For the Rays, it followed two losses in three games at the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, resulting in a 1-5 trip.<\/p>\n
Ohtani (7-2) left the mound after six innings and was inserted in the bottom of the inning as a pinch hitter for designated hitter Miguel Rojas. Ohtani grounded out on one pitch to end the inning. It was the only at-bat Ohtani got and the Dodgers lost the DH for the rest of the game.<\/p>\n
The blister on Ohtani\u2019s middle finger of his right hand that he had in Pittsburgh last week got bloodied. The two-way superstar was already dealing with left knee inflammation that manager Dave Roberts said before the game wasn\u2019t completely resolved.<\/p>\n
Alex Vesia got out of a bases-loaded jam in the ninth by striking out Cedric Mullins to end the game and earn his third save.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers led 2-0 on a pair of two-out RBI singles by Alex Call and Alex Freeland in the fourth.<\/p>\n
The Rays went ahead 4-2 in the fifth on a sacrifice fly by Taylor Walls, Yandy Diaz\u2019s RBI single, a fielder\u2019s choice groundout by Junior Caminero and Richie Palacios\u2019 RBI single. It snapped a 20-inning scoreless streak by Dodgers\u2019 pitching.<\/p>\n
Rays reliever Garrett Cleavinger came in with the bases loaded and walked Kyle Tucker in the fifth, getting the Dodgers to 4-3.<\/p>\n
Dodgers utility man Tommy Edman was hitless with a walk in his season debut after missing nearly three months while recovering from offseason ankle surgery.<\/p>\n
Rays starter Shane McClanahan gave up two runs and three hits in 3 2\/3 innings. He struck out three and walked five.<\/p>\n
The Rays are off Thursday before starting a 10-game homestand Friday night against the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 It was a rough West Coast road trip for the Tampa Bay Rays. Freddie Freeman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,13360,6632,5167,553,100,8537,2998,127,13355,48889],"class_list":["post-365817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-florida","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365817","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=365817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}