{"id":850042,"date":"2026-06-07T05:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T05:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/850042\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T05:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T05:17:21","slug":"dodgers-relentless-offense-overwhelms-angels-led-by-yamamotos-pitching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/850042\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers’ relentless offense overwhelms Angels, led by Yamamoto’s pitching"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a> retired 22 consecutive batters over eight dominant innings, Andy Pages and Shohei Ohtani homered to highlight a nine-run first and the Los Angeles Dodgers routed the Los Angeles Angels 9-2 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers battered Angels starter Jack Kochanowitz (2-5) for seven runs \u2014 six earned \u2014 and six hits in one-third of an inning. The right-hander had a strikeout and a walk in 38 pitches.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers have outscored the Angels 41-5 in winning all five of their meetings so far. The NL West leaders have won 18 of their last 23 games overall.<\/p>\n

Yamamoto (6-4) had seven consecutive 1-2-3 innings in silencing the Halos\u2019 lineup after Oswald Peraza\u2019s RBI triple with two outs in the first. It was the first run scored against Dodgers starting pitching in 19 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

The reigning World Series MVP allowed two hits, struck out four and walked none in eight innings. He threw 93 pitches, 69 for strikes. Yamamoto lowered his ERA to 2.68.<\/p>\n

In his last four starts, Yamamoto has an ERA below 1.00 and has allowed just three earned runs and one homer in 27 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers reeled off six straight hits to open the bottom of the first when they sent 12 batters to the plate. Their nine runs came with just one out. It was the most runs scored in one inning since they also had nine on July 2, 2021, against Washington.<\/p>\n

Ohtani reached on an infield single to second and scored on Pages\u2019 14th homer into the Dodgers\u2019 bullpen in left for a 2-1 lead. Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts had consecutive singles and moved up on a wild pitch by Kochanowitz. Max Muncy reached on an infield single to load the bases.<\/p>\n

Ryan Ward doubled to center, bringing in Freeman and Betts for a 4-1 lead.<\/p>\n

Dalton Rushing walked to chase Kochanowitz. Alex Freeland grounded into a fielder\u2019s choice to shortstop against Brent Suter. Muncy, Ward and Rushing scored on shortstop Zach Neto\u2019s throwing error to first that made it 7-1.<\/p>\n

Ohtani\u2019s two-run shot extended the lead to 9-1. He finished 2 for 4 with a strikeout and a walk.<\/p>\n

Neto homered off Jack Dreyer in the ninth.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Angels RHP Jos\u00e9 Soriano (6-4, 2.72 ERA) starts Sunday\u2019s series finale against Dodgers RHP Emmet Sheehan (3-2, 4.50).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Yoshinobu Yamamoto retired 22 consecutive batters over eight dominant innings, Andy Pages and Shohei…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":850043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[32074,5955,591,25273,276,21696,6595,6600,347358,347359,1285,2502,8327,1266,1822,2749,33901,232745,4712,62,67,132,68,20410,2622],"class_list":["post-850042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-alex-freeland","tag-andy-pages","tag-baseball","tag-brent-suter","tag-california","tag-emmet-sheehan","tag-freddie-freeman","tag-jack-dreyer","tag-jack-kochanowitz","tag-jos-soriano","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-max-muncy","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mookie-betts","tag-oswald-peraza","tag-ryan-ward","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-yoshinobu-yamamoto","tag-zach-neto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116707134570477999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850042","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=850042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}