LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani homered twice and drove in six runs on his bobblehead night time, and the Los Angeles Dodgers routed the Athletics 19-2 on Thursday night time to stay unbeaten of their final six collection.
After shedding the opener 11-1, the Dodgers outscored the Athletics 28-5 over the ultimate two video games whereas enhancing to 17-4 at dwelling, finest within the majors. The 19 runs are their most ever in opposition to an American League opponent.
The Dodgers batted round within the third, when Hyeseong Kim singled in a run, Ohtani went deep to left-center and Andy Pages added a 416-foot, three-run shot with two outs for a 13-2 lead.
Ohtani tied Aaron Decide and Kyle Schwarber for the most important league dwelling run lead along with his fifteenth within the fourth, a two-run, 418-foot blast to middle for the twentieth multi-homer recreation of his profession. He has 9 homers in his previous 15 video games and leads the majors with 48 runs.
Ohtani drove in one of many Dodgers’ three runs with a sacrifice fly within the second. They scored three runs within the first, highlighted by Max Muncy’s two-run homer. They tacked on one other three runs within the eighth.
Kim reached base 5 instances, twice through stroll, and scored three runs.
Justin Wrobleski (1-1) obtained the win.
The Athletics had simply three hits, together with Max Schuemann’s homer, and just one after the second inning.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
