The Shohei Ohtani circuit gives Dodgers a Balayage of Braves, 8-0 – Start – Orange County Register

Los Angeles – Even with a deficit of five points equally behind their back, the Dodgers managed to escape to maintain their sequence of seasonal opening victories.

Everything you needed at the end was Shohei Ohtani’s circuit during the ninth round of his Bobblehead night after Max Muncy delivered a double of two sleeves with two withdrawals in the eighth.

With cars blocked in the streets of Elysian Park four hours before the first throw, it was an Ohtani toy that built the excitement. When it was over, it was Ohtani with another opponent who provided the thrill.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts knows that the first defeat arrives at some point, but his players continue to fight the inevitable.

“I suppose that if you say that, if every night we take the field, do I have the impression that we are going to win? Yeah,” said Roberts before the match. “So I know that the calculation says that we are not going to go 162-0, but each evening we take the ground, I have the impression that we are going to win. And so, you know, whatever this means. “

Ohtani’s heroism has also helped Dodgers establish the record for consecutive victories to open a season by a defending champion of World Series. They had been equal to seven with the 1933 New York Yankees.

The victories – six of which involved returns – continue to come even after the Dodgers have already played on two continents to open the season and participated in the opening ceremonies and championship ring.

Now comes the first domestic road trip to Philadelphia and Washington from Friday.

In the process, the brave fell at 0-7 while going to Atlanta for their first home game on Friday.

Although the defensive work of the Dodgers was praised, even with the first goal player Freddie Freeman, the Copstist Mookie Betts and the man of the utility Kiké Hernandez all the missing matches at the start of the season, that almost cost them on Wednesday.

Muncy made two errors to launch in the first two rounds. The central field player Andy Pages played a long journey towards the wall. The launcher leaving Blake Snell was far from being Sharp, but due to the trembling defense, the five points he authorized in four rounds were not won.

Muncy’s launch error has two outings during the first round on a Bryan de la Cruz Grounder allowed Atlanta to mark his first race. With Freeman again Wednesday with the right pain of the ankle, Hernandez could not offer the low end of Muncy. Nick Allen followed with a double RBI.

Muncy’s second launch error occurred in the second round on the head of Suart Fairchild. Ozzie Albies doubled in a race when the pages turned around while withdrawing on the warning track and Matt Olson added a double of two points for an advance of 5-0 at the start.

The Dodgers chipped, obtaining a two -point circuit from Tommy Edman during the second round and a comforto solo shot in the fourth. They even had runners the first and third without anyone in the fifth before Betts engaged in a double game to derail the threat.

The Dodgers even made a third error to launch in the seventh round when Kirby Yates launched a picking attempt in the central field, but Atlanta did not mark.

The double of Muncy in two points prepared the terrain for the dramatic of Ohtani when he reached a change of first land of Raisel Iglesias just above the wall in the center left.

More to come to this story.

Originally published: April 2, 2025 at 8:55 pm PDT