LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani is simply in his second yr with the Dodgers, however he is already put himself in some unique firm in franchise historical past.
Ohtani slugged his fortieth dwelling run of the season, a solo shot off Chris Bassitt that sailed a Statcast-projected 417 ft to straightaway middle at 107.8 mph off the bat, to provide the Dodgers some respiration room earlier than the bats broke out in Saturday’s 9-1 win over the Blue Jays at Dodger Stadium.
The blast gave Ohtani back-to-back seasons with no less than 40 homers, and he joined a brief record of Dodgers who’ve had a number of such seasons:
Having reached 40 homers in 117 staff video games, Ohtani is the quickest to the benchmark in Dodgers historical past.
Ohtani has gone deep no less than 40 occasions in three straight seasons. He is presently the one lively participant with 4 40-homer seasons, though the Yankees’ Aaron Decide and maybe the Mets’ Pete Alonso have a shot at getting there this yr as properly.
The booming blast off Ohtani’s bat gave the Dodgers a 3-0 lead over the Blue Jays within the fifth. One inning earlier, Max Muncy opened the scoring by going the opposite manner for a two-run shot, his third dwelling run since coming back from the injured record on Monday.
First got here the lengthy balls. Then the Dodgers used small ball to place away the Blue Jays.
Dalton Dashing, Mookie Betts and Andy Pages knocked in two runs apiece in a six-run sixth inning. It was probably the most runs the Dodgers had scored in an inning since June 24 (six-run fourth in Colorado), and it had been practically as lengthy because the Dodgers had received back-to-back video games at dwelling (July 1-3 vs. White Sox).
The outburst was greater than sufficient to assist the Dodgers take their first two video games in opposition to the Blue Jays and again Blake Snell, who struck out 10 throughout 5 scoreless innings and picked up his first win since his season debut in his second begin again from the injured record.
