{"id":683297,"date":"2026-06-04T05:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/683297\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:45:10","slug":"shohei-ohtani-lowers-era-to-0-74-with-6-scoreless-innings-leads-nl-in-obp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/683297\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani lowers ERA to 0.74 with 6 scoreless innings, leads NL in OBP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shohei Ohtani<\/a> could be working as only a pitcher this season, and we would still be talking about how he’s having one of the best starts in MLB history.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>\u2019 superstar continued his campaign for a third straight NL MVP award (and his fifth MVP award overall) with six scoreless innings in a 7-0 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> on Wednesday. His ERA is now 0.74 through 10 starts, which would easily lead MLB if he\u2019d thrown one more inning to qualify for the ERA title.<\/p>\n

Ohtani struck out six while allowing only two hits and one walk against the D-backs. He also reached base on five of six plate appearances, going 3-for-4 with two walks. That grew his lead on the on-base percentage leaderboard, where he tops the NL at .420.<\/p>\n

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His three hits were more than the Diamondbacks tallied as a team (two) in the entire game. And Ohtani tied the Diamondbacks\u2019 lineup with two walks.<\/p>\n

It’s the kind of accomplishment that needs to be repeated to be appreciated: The Dodgers have the pitcher with the best ERA among any pitcher with more than one start and the hitter with the best OBP in the National League. They are the same person.<\/p>\n

Per MLB.com’s Sarah Langs<\/a>, only two pitchers in MLB history have had a lower ERA through their first 10 starts of the season: Jacob deGrom<\/a> in 2021 (0.56) and Juan Marichal in 1966 (0.59). Even Fernando Valenzuela’s mark was “up” to 1.24 by the 10th start of his legendary Fernandomania run (with far more innings, obviously).<\/p>\n

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Here is an abbreviated game log of Ohtani’s 10 starts. Try to decide which is the worst one.<\/p>\n

Date<\/p>\n

Innings<\/p>\n

Hits<\/p>\n

Earned runs<\/p>\n

Walks<\/p>\n

Strikeouts<\/p>\n

3\/31<\/p>\n

6<\/p>\n

1<\/p>\n

0<\/p>\n

3<\/p>\n

6<\/p>\n

4\/8<\/p>\n

6<\/p>\n

4<\/p>\n

0<\/p>\n

1<\/p>\n

2<\/p>\n

4\/15<\/p>\n

6<\/p>\n

2<\/p>\n

1<\/p>\n

2<\/p>\n

10<\/p>\n

4\/22<\/p>\n

6<\/p>\n

5<\/p>\n

0<\/p>\n

0<\/p>\n

7<\/p>\n

4\/28<\/p>\n

6<\/p>\n

5<\/p>\n

1<\/p>\n

3<\/p>\n

9<\/p>\n

5\/5<\/p>\n

7<\/p>\n

4<\/p>\n

2<\/p>\n

0<\/p>\n

8<\/p>\n

5\/13<\/p>\n

7<\/p>\n

4<\/p>\n

0<\/p>\n

2<\/p>\n

8<\/p>\n

5\/20<\/p>\n

5<\/p>\n

3<\/p>\n

0<\/p>\n

2<\/p>\n

4<\/p>\n

5\/27<\/p>\n

6<\/p>\n

0<\/p>\n

1<\/p>\n

4<\/p>\n

7<\/p>\n

6\/3<\/p>\n

6<\/p>\n

2<\/p>\n

0<\/p>\n

1<\/p>\n

6<\/p>\n

You could legitimately make an argument that Ohtani’s six hitless innings on May 27 made for one of his five worst starts this season on a results basis. His ERA increased, after all.<\/p>\n

If there was a knock against Ohtani earlier this season, it was that he was struggling at the plate in his first full season as a pitcher with the Dodgers. The Dodgers admitted as much when they started giving him the day off as a hitter when he was pitching<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Naturally, he is now hitting .432 since May 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani could be working as only a pitcher this season, and we would still be talking about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2317,13822,363,51804,3956,99,59462],"class_list":["post-683297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-jacob-degrom","tag-mlb","tag-scoreless-innings","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-the-los-angeles-dodgers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683297","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=683297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}