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Shohei Ohtani has officially been welcomed to the new MLB year after hitting his first home run of the 2026 season.
Ohtani looks like he's back in form following a three-run home run as the Los Angeles Dodgers routed the Washington Nationals, 13-6, on April 3 in Washington D.C.
There's nothing sweeter than seeing baseball fly out the park and Ohtani and the Dodgers made that happen not once, not twice, but five times in the nation's capital.
The first came in the third inning with the Dodgers down 3-0. Ohtani hit a three-run bomb that went 401 feet between right and center field, as Teoscar Hernández and Andy Pages scored to tie the game.
Ohtani finished 2-for-5 with 4 RBIs – also his first of the season – and is batting .217 now. He is 1-0 on the mound with 6 strikeouts in as many innings pitched.
The Dodgers added two more scores in the inning as Mookie Betts followed with a two-run, 380-foot home run that brought home Kyle Tucker. Los Angeles got out of the inning with a 5-3 lead but continued to pour it on throughout the ball game.
Pages got in on the action, hitting the longest homerun of the game. His went 412 feet to left field as he and Hernandez ran across home plate to pad the Dodgers' lead to 7-4 in the fourth inning.
Freddie Freeman smacked one 391 feet in the following inning, scoring Betts. Dodgers dominance carried on. They led 9-4 in the fifth but weren't done.
Tucker added to an 11-4 lead with a solo home run on a 404-foot shot in the top of the seventh. It was also his first home run of the 2026 season.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Shohei Ohtani hits 3-run home run in Dodgers vs Nationals
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Ohtani looks like he's back in form following a three-run home run as the Los Angeles Dodgers routed the Washington Nationals, 13-6, on April 3 in Washington D.C.
There's nothing sweeter than seeing baseball fly out the park and Ohtani and the Dodgers made that happen not once, not twice, but five times in the nation's capital.
The first came in the third inning with the Dodgers down 3-0. Ohtani hit a three-run bomb that went 401 feet between right and center field, as Teoscar Hernández and Andy Pages scored to tie the game.
Ohtani finished 2-for-5 with 4 RBIs – also his first of the season – and is batting .217 now. He is 1-0 on the mound with 6 strikeouts in as many innings pitched.
The Dodgers added two more scores in the inning as Mookie Betts followed with a two-run, 380-foot home run that brought home Kyle Tucker. Los Angeles got out of the inning with a 5-3 lead but continued to pour it on throughout the ball game.
Pages got in on the action, hitting the longest homerun of the game. His went 412 feet to left field as he and Hernandez ran across home plate to pad the Dodgers' lead to 7-4 in the fourth inning.
Freddie Freeman smacked one 391 feet in the following inning, scoring Betts. Dodgers dominance carried on. They led 9-4 in the fifth but weren't done.
Tucker added to an 11-4 lead with a solo home run on a 404-foot shot in the top of the seventh. It was also his first home run of the 2026 season.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Shohei Ohtani hits 3-run home run in Dodgers vs Nationals
Continue reading...
