{"id":82379,"date":"2025-07-22T05:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/82379\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:33:08","slug":"shohei-ohtanis-big-homer-and-will-smiths-2-blasts-help-dodgers-end-home-woes-with-5-2-win-over-twins-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/82379\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani\u2019s big homer and Will Smith\u2019s 2 blasts help Dodgers end home woes with 5-2 win over Twins \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shohei Ohtani<\/a>\u00a0hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the bottom of the first after giving up a leadoff homer to fellow All-Star Byron Buxton, helping the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> beat the Minnesota Twins 5-2 on Monday night.<\/p>\n

The NL West leaders snapped a six-game skid at home, their longest such streak at Dodger Stadium since September 2017.\u00a0They were swept\u00a0in three games by the Milwaukee Brewers over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Buxton sent Ohtani’s second pitch of the game halfway up the left field pavilion. <\/p>\n

After Mookie Betts walked, Ohtani answered with a 441-foot blast to center that put the Dodgers in front, 2-1. The two-way Japanese superstar has homered in three straight games.<\/p>\n

Smith went deep twice off David Festa (3-4). Smith led off the fourth with a two-strike homer to center and followed with a 435-foot shot to left that made it 4-1.<\/p>\n

Andy Pages added a solo shot off reliever Cole Sands.<\/p>\n

Dustin May (6-6) took over from Ohtani, who allowed one run, four hits and struck out three in three innings. <\/a>May gave up five hits in 4 2\/3 innings, struck out four and walked three. Kirby Yates earned his third save.<\/p>\n

Freddie Freeman\u00a0was in the lineup a day after being hit by a pitch on his left wrist in Sunday’s 6-5 loss to Milwaukee. He was 1 for 4 with a strikeout.<\/p>\n

Key moment<\/p>\n

Minnesota shortstop Carlos Correa went 0 for 5, getting booed heavily in every at-bat by Dodgers fans still angry about the 2017 World Series, when Correa played for Houston. He was robbed of a potential game-tying homer by James Outman at the center field wall in the ninth.<\/p>\n

Key stat<\/p>\n

Ohtani is the first pitcher to give up a homer and hit a homer in the first inning of the same game since Philadelphia’s Randy Lerch in a 23-22 win over the Chicago Cubs on May 17, 1979.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Twins RHP Simeon Woods Richardson (5-4, 3.95 ERA) starts Tuesday against Dodgers RHP Yoshinobu Yamamoto (8-7, 2.59).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani\u00a0hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the bottom of the first after giving up a leadoff homer…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":82380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,2502,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-82379","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114895257868747863","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82379","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=82379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}