Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani splashed his 32nd home run of the season into San Francisco’s McCovey Cove beyond the right-field wall Friday night, but the big blast was not enough to snap the team’s season-high seven-game losing streak. <\/p>\n
The San Francisco Giants scored five runs in the bottom of the fifth inning and held on to beat the Dodgers 8-7 on Friday night at Oracle Park to give Los Angeles their longest losing streak since they lost 11 straight games in 2017. <\/p>\n
The Giants handed free agent shortstop Willy Adames the largest contract in franchise history in the offseason, and despite struggling to start the season, he started the scoring with a 436-foot home run in the bottom of the second inning. <\/p>\n
All-Star Shohei Ohtani put the Dodgers up 2-1 a few minutes later with his splash home run into McCovey Cove. <\/p>\n
It marked the 65th home run into the water by an opponent in Oracle Park’s 25-year history and 171st in all \u2014 and 35 of those belong to home run king Barry Bonds.<\/p>\n
Ohtani connected with one out in the third inning for a two-run drive after Hyeseong Kim’s leadoff single marked the first hit of the night for Los Angeles against Giants starter Logan Webb.<\/p>\n
Set to make his fifth start on the mound pitching Saturday, Ohtani crushed a 91.1 mph cutter on Webb’s first offering of the at-bat and the ball traveled 410 feet. A kayaker immediately jumped into the water to retrieve the special souvenir ball.<\/p>\n
Dominic Smith homered leading off the fifth after Jung Hoo Lee’s two-run triple in the fourth put San Francisco ahead against Dustin May (5-6). Lee beat out an infield single in the fifth to drive in another run.<\/p>\n
Camilo Doval allowed Mookie Betts’ single then walked Freddie Freeman before getting Will Smith to ground into a game-ending double play for his 15th save.<\/p>\n
Michael Conforto’s two-run homer in the sixth chased Webb after he hit Betts with a pitch.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers have their worst losing streak since Sept. 2-11 2017, when they dropped 11 in a row.<\/p>\n
May, who beat the Giants on June 15, was tagged for seven earned runs on five hits in 4 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
San Francisco pulled within four games of the first-place Dodgers in the NL West.<\/p>\n
Key play<\/p>\n
Following his triple, Lee was called out at home on a fly by Casey Schmitt and a sensational throw by left fielder Conforto. The Giants challenged the call and it was upheld on review.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
Ohtani’s blast marked the 65th home run into the water by an opponent in Oracle Park\u2019s 25-year history and 171st in all \u2014 35 of those belong to home run king Barry Bonds.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Ohtani (0-1, 1.50 ERA) pitches Saturday opposite Giants RHP Landen Roupp (6-5, 3.39).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani splashed his 32nd home run of the season into San Francisco’s McCovey…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,2502,5337,4712],"class_list":{"0":"post-59227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-shohei-ohtani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114839555011706170","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59227","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=59227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}