LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani hit two homers in an 11-5 win over the San Francisco Giants on Saturday evening, emphatically ending the three-time MVP’s longest homer drought since becoming a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Ohtani led off the underside of the primary together with his twenty fourth homer, hammering Landen Roupp’s fourth pitch 419 ft deep into the right-field bleachers with an exit velocity of 110.3 mph.
The slugger had been in a 10-game homer drought since June 2, going 10-for-40 in that stretch with no RBIs, though he nonetheless had an eight-game hitting streak throughout his energy outage.
Ohtani led off the sixth together with his twenty fifth homer, sending Tristan Beck’s breaking ball exterior the strike zone into the bleachers in proper. He additionally moved one homer behind the Yankees’ Aaron Choose and Seattle’s Cal Raleigh for the general main league lead.
Dodgers followers introduced him dwelling with a standing ovation as Ohtani produced his third multihomer recreation of the season and the twenty second of his profession.
Ohtani reached base 4 occasions and scored three runs in his first 4 at-bats, drawing two walks to go together with his two homers.
Ohtani hadn’t performed in 10 straight video games with out hitting a homer since 2023 within the closing 10 video games of his six-year tenure with the Los Angeles Angels.
Ohtani had slowed down a bit over the previous two weeks after he was named the NL Participant of the Month for Could with a formidable efficiency, racking up 15 homers and 28 RBIs.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
