LOS ANGELES — One night time after needing to grind out a comeback victory in a sport the place they’d had the possibility to win comfortably, the Dodgers stored their foot on the gasoline and cruised to a sequence win.
Shohei Ohtani led off the underside of the primary inning with a booming solo shot — his first homer since getting back from paternity go away simply over every week in the past — and the Dodgers by no means regarded again in a 15-2 rout of the Marlins on Tuesday night time at Dodger Stadium.
Los Angeles tallied a season-high 15 runs and notched 10-plus hits for the sixth time in its previous seven video games, all whereas placing out solely 5 occasions. It was greater than sufficient offense to again a robust efficiency on the mound.
Whereas Tuesday was a scheduled bullpen sport, the Dodgers solely wanted to ship 4 arms to the mound. Following Jack Dreyer’s two innings of one-run ball to open the competition, Matt Sauer held the Marlins to at least one run throughout 5 robust frames, incomes his first Main League win. Luis García and utility man Kiké Hernández lined the ultimate two innings, guaranteeing the staff would have its back-end arms accessible with the chance to brush in Wednesday’s finale.
The Dodgers briefly trailed after the highest of the primary inning, however the deficit did not final lengthy as soon as Ohtani jumped on a first-pitch sinker from Sandy Alcantara and despatched it crusing out to proper area. At 114.1 mph off the bat, it was Ohtani’s hardest-hit homer of the season. Since Statcast started monitoring in 2015, solely two gamers have extra 114-plus mph dwelling runs than Ohtani’s 35: the Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton (73) and Aaron Choose (42).
