Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts responded to Shohei Ohtani’s bat explosion by saying, “There’s no doubt about it. He’s back to his old self,” said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts with a smile.
Ohtani shook his head after going 1-for-3 with a walk and three strikeouts against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sept. 5 and again on Sept. 6 against the Milwaukee Brewers, going 1-for-5 with a walk and three strikeouts. After two consecutive days of silence, Ohtani’s bat came alive. He went 2-for-2 with a home run and a triple, two RBIs, two runs scored, three walks and a stolen base in a one-hit show against Milwaukee on July 7.
Trailing 1-0 in the top of the first, Ohtani drew a full count and walked. He scored on Will Smith’s two-run homer to right. With two outs in the second inning, Ohtani was hit by a pitch and stole second base. Will Smith was stranded at second on a fly ball to center field.
After drawing a walk with runners on first and second in the fourth inning, Ohtani blasted a triple to right-center field two batters later in the sixth inning, and then hit a solo arch over the wall in center field in the eighth inning to make it 4-3. It was the game-winning hit. Ohtani, who went 2-for-2 with one home run, three doubles, one triple and two RBIs on the day, 고스톱사이트 improved his season batting average from 3-for-1 to 3-for-6.
The Dodgers defeated Milwaukee 5-3.
Milwaukee scored first in the first inning on a two-out, two-run single to left by second baseman Willy Adames. The Dodgers answered in the bottom of the inning, taking a 2-1 lead on a two-run homer to right by Will Smith. Back-to-back singles by Freddie Freeman and Teoscar Hernandez scored Andy Fajes on an infield grounder with the bases loaded to make it 3-1.
Milwaukee cut the deficit to one in the bottom of the fourth when Reese Hoskins hit a solo shot to left. In the eighth, Christian Yelich tied the game at 3-3 with a bases-loaded, two-run home run to center field.
The Dodgers regained the lead in the bottom of the eighth on a solo shot by pinch-hitter Miguel Vargas, 4-3, before Ohtani hit the game-winning single to center.
“There’s no doubt about it,” Roberts said of Ohtani. He’s back to his old self,” Roberts said of Ohtani.
