LOS ANGELES — It had been a while since Shohei Ohtani had left the yard, so he made up for misplaced time on Saturday night time.
Ohtani hit a pair of dwelling runs — together with the 250th of his profession — to again a classic efficiency from Clayton Kershaw, who twirled seven scoreless innings in an 11-5 win over the Giants at Dodger Stadium.
It was Ohtani’s third multihomer sport of 2025. His second blast of the sport — and twenty fifth of the season — tied Brady Anderson (1996) for probably the most homers out of the leadoff spot by way of a group’s first 71 video games. Ohtani additionally matched Gary Sheffield (2000) for probably the most homers in Dodgers historical past by way of 71 group video games.
He managed these numbers even after going 10 video games with out hitting a homer.
Ohtani led off the Dodgers’ half of the primary inning together with his twenty fourth homer, which sailed a Statcast-projected 419 ft into the right-field seats at 110.3 mph off the bat. It set the tone for what ended up being a tough outing for Giants starter Landen Roupp, whom the Dodgers knocked out of the sport with two outs within the second inning after tagging him for 5 runs.
The milestone 250th blast got here within the sixth inning, when Ohtani reached out for a Tristan Beck curveball on the outer fringe of the plate and nonetheless managed to ship it into the seats. Ohtani’s twenty fifth round-tripper of the season padded his Nationwide League-leading tally and introduced him inside one in every of MLB dwelling run leaders Aaron Choose and Cal Raleigh.
Enjoying in his 928th sport through which he batted, Ohtani grew to become the quickest in Main League historical past to achieve 250-plus homers and 150-plus steals, passing Alex Rodriguez (977 video games).
