{"id":116001,"date":"2025-08-28T10:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/116001\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:16:07","slug":"shohei-ohtani-gets-first-victory-with-dodgers-striking-out-season-high-9-against-reds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/116001\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani gets first victory with Dodgers, striking out season-high 9 against Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Shohei Ohtani struck out a season-high nine in five innings for his first victory with the Dodgers<\/a> as Los Angeles beat Cincinnati 5-1 on Wednesday night to become the first team to sweep the Reds this season.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers won their fourth straight and extended their NL West lead to two games over San Diego, which lost 4-3 at Seattle.<\/p>\n

Ohtani (1-1) bounced back<\/a> against the Reds in his 11th start of the season and first in which he went the minimum five innings to qualify for a win. The victory was his first since Aug. 9, 2023, with the Angels against San Francisco.<\/p>\n

The two-way star allowed one run and two hits while walking two on a season-high 87 pitches, 53 for strikes, while retiring his final eight batters on his bobblehead night. At the plate, he was 1 for 5 with a run.<\/p>\n

The Reds led 1-0 on Noelvi Marte\u2019s 410-foot homer on the first pitch by Ohtani in the third. It was the third homer Ohtani has allowed this season.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers scored four runs to take a 4-1 lead in the fourth. Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez, starting in place of injured Freddie Freeman, had a two-run single up the middle. It was the third straight single allowed by Nick Lodolo (8-7), who retired the first nine batters he faced. <\/p>\n

Lodolo intentionally walked Miguel Rojas, and Dalton Rushing followed with a two-run single. Michael Conforto added a solo homer in the eighth. <\/p>\n

Key moment<\/p>\n

Ohtani pitched his way out of trouble in the second. With one out, he walked Spencer Steer and Jose Trevino back-to-back. They moved up on two wild pitches \u2014 Ohtani\u2019s seventh and eighth of the season \u2014 before Ke\u2019Bryan Hayes and Matt McLain went down swinging to end the inning. <\/p>\n

Key stats<\/p>\n

Los Angeles pitchers struck out a franchise-record 19 batters for a nine-inning game.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

After off days for both teams, Reds RHP Zack Littell (9-8, 3.62 ERA) starts Friday at home against St. Louis. Dodgers LHP Blake Snell (3-2, 1.97) starts Friday against visiting Arizona.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Shohei Ohtani struck out a season-high nine in five innings for his first victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1558,8974,2356,8965,75309,38789,66346,2323,61431,4293,18559,363,2008,75308,38337,12303,6454,7155,3956,38177,99,39908],"class_list":["post-116001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-blake-snell","tag-california","tag-freddie-freeman","tag-jose-trevino","tag-kebryan-hayes","tag-kike-hernandez","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-matt-mclain","tag-michael-conforto","tag-miguel-rojas","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-nick-lodolo","tag-noelvi-marte","tag-oh-state-wire","tag-ohio","tag-san-diego","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-spencer-steer","tag-sports","tag-zack-littell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}