Emmet Sheehan struck out 10 in his return from the minor leagues and the Los Angeles Dodgers turned Shohei Ohtani\u2019s return to the lineup into a 6-3 victory over the visiting Cincinnati Reds on Monday.<\/p>\n
Sheehan (5-8), who lost his roster spot when left-hander Tarik Skubal joined the rotation last month, threw 5\u2154 innings of one-run ball. He gave up three hits and one walk while tying his career high for strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Teoscar Hernandez hit a three-run homer as Los Angeles (87-57) extended its winning streak to five games.<\/p>\n
Ohtani went 0-for-3 with a walk and two strikeouts after sitting out the previous four games because of left knee, right biceps and neck discomfort. He is 2-for-26 (.077) with no RBIs in his past seven games.<\/p>\n
Elly De La Cruz and Eugenio Suarez homered while Chase Burns threw three scoreless innings for the Reds (69-75). Cincinnati lost the series opener to the two-time defending World Series champions after winning three consecutive series against playoff contenders.<\/p>\n
Burns allowed no hits, walked one and had five strikeouts in an abbreviated outing. The Reds are limiting the 23-year-old All-Star\u2019s usage down the stretch.<\/p>\n
De La Cruz gave Cincinnati a 1-0 lead on Sheehan\u2019s fourth pitch when he sent a fastball over the wall in center field with one out in the first inning. It was his 24th homer of the season.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers had two runners aboard with two outs in the fifth when Miguel Rojas hit a high chopper to third that Ke\u2019Bryan Hayes fielded before making a wild throw. Hernandez and Alex Call scored on the play.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles\u2019 Freddie Freeman and Max Muncy walked in the sixth inning against Brandon Williamson (3-4), and Hernandez followed his 13th long ball for a 5-1 lead. Hernandez, who finished 2-for-3, is now 13-for-29 (.448) with 11 RBIs over his past eight games.<\/p>\n
Suarez inched Cincinnati closer with a home run to center in the seventh, his 22nd.<\/p>\n
The Reds had runners on second and third with one out in the eighth inning against left-hander Jack Dreyer but scored just once, on a groundout by pinch hitter Dane Myers to pull within 5-3. A pinch-hit sacrifice fly from Will Smith in the eighth gave the Dodgers their final run.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles right-hander Evan Phillips pitched a perfect ninth inning for his first save of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emmet Sheehan struck out 10 in his return from the minor leagues and the Los Angeles Dodgers turned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[55595,8,1165,33,1164],"class_list":["post-88025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-japan","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-nihon","tag-shohei-ohtani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}