Shohei Ohtani and Freddie Freeman hit home runs as the Los Angeles Dodgers pounded Sandy Alcantara again in a 7-4 victory over the Miami Marlins on Monday night.
Mookie Betts and Teoscar Hernandez had two hits each for the Dodgers, who have won eight of nine games and began a 10-game road trip.
Dodgers return in a big way
Hernandez exited the game in the fourth inning due to left hamstring tightness. Manager Dave Roberts said after the game that the slugger will undergo an MRI on Tuesday.
In his first Major League start, Hyeseong Kim of Los Angeles had two hits and drove in a run.
Alcantara (2-4) allowed five runs and six hits in five innings, six days after the 2022 National League Cy Young Award winner was pounded for seven runs and seven hits in two and two-thirds innings against the defending World Series champions.
The Dodgers quickly attacked Alcantara with Hernandez’s RBI double in the first inning. Freeman made it 3-0 with a two-run homer in the third.
The 122-meter home run over the center field wall was Freeman’s 41st career home run against Miami, tying him for the Marlins’ lead with Ryan Howard and Ryan Zimmerman.
Ohtani increased the lead with his two-run homer over the right-center field fence, which had an exit velocity of 199.2 km/h.
Ben Casparius (4-0) relieved Dodgers starter Jack Dreyer with one out in the second inning and scattered one run over four innings to earn the win.
Rookie Agustin Ramirez hit a three-run homer off Dodgers reliever Yoendrys Gomez in the eighth, which cut the Marlins’ deficit to 7-4. Tanner Scott relieved Gomez and got the final two outs of the eighth before Kirby Yates closed out the inning for his first save.
Key moment for the Dodgers
Kim connected for a single to lead off the fifth inning, getting his first hit in the Majors, and scored on Ohtani’s home run.
Key facts about Shohei Ohtani
Ohtani tied Hernandez for the club lead in home runs with nine. He has hit four home runs at LoanDepot Park in his last two games, following his three-homer performance on September 19, when the star slugger became the first player to reach 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a season.
What’s next for the Dodgers vs. Marlins series?
Right-hander Tony Gonsolin (1-0, 4.50 ERA) will start for the Dodgers on Tuesday, while the Marlins will go with right-hander Cal Quantrill (2-3, 8.10).
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