{"id":225900,"date":"2025-09-14T10:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/225900\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T10:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:11:10","slug":"shohei-ohtani-hits-49th-homer-in-dodgers-win-over-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/225900\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani hits 49th homer in Dodgers&#8217; win over Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Shohei Ohtani hit his 49th homer, Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez delivered a go-ahead two-run double in a six-run fifth inning after the Dodgers chased Giants starter Logan Webb, and NL West-leading Los Angeles rallied past San Francisco 13-7 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/1967044871585399239\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ohtani connected for a 454-foot drive<\/a> to center leading off the third and is closing in on a second straight 50-homer season.<\/p>\n<p>Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy went down hard after he was hit near the right ear by a pitch from Matt Gage in the sixth but stayed in the game. Miguel Rojas helped the Dodgers add on that inning with a two-run double.<\/p>\n<p>Edgardo Henriquez (1-1) struck out the side in order in the fourth on the way to his first career win.<\/p>\n<p>The defending World Series champions came back from a 4-1 deficit against Webb (14-10) a night after Patrick Bailey\u2019s 10th-inning grand slam gave the Giants a 5-1 victory and snapped the Dodgers\u2019 four-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey hit a two-run double Saturday, but the Giants remained a half-game back of the skidding New York Mets for the third National League wild card.<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani singled in the first to extend his on-base streak to 18 games and Mookie Betts\u2019 third-inning single also gave him 18 in a row reaching base. Betts had an RBI single in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Dodgers lefty Clayton Kershaw was done after three innings, having allowed four runs on five hits in what might have been his final start at Oracle Park.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco\u2019s Jerar Encarnaci\u00f3n came off the injured list to play right field and delivered an RBI groundout in the first inning \u2014 just his 11th game in a season hampered by wrist, oblique and hamstring injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>RHP Tyler Glasnow (2-3, 3.21 ERA) pitches the series finale for the Dodgers opposite LHP Robbie Ray (11-6, 3.32).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Shohei Ohtani hit his 49th homer, Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez delivered a go-ahead two-run double in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":225901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2733,591,276,7480,57674,20411,2502,122188,8327,32075,1266,1822,2749,122187,34540,1275,4712,62,5957,6601,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-225900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-athlete-injuries","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-clayton-kershaw","12":"tag-edgardo-henriquez","13":"tag-logan-webb","14":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","15":"tag-matt-gage","16":"tag-max-muncy","17":"tag-miguel-rojas","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-mlb-baseball","20":"tag-mookie-betts","21":"tag-patrick-bailey","22":"tag-robbie-ray","23":"tag-san-francisco-giants","24":"tag-shohei-ohtani","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-teoscar-hernandez","27":"tag-tyler-glasnow","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115202115866716515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}