The Los Angeles Dodgers suffered a 9-3 defeat at home against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday. Shohei Ohtani will miss the upcoming All-Star Game due to injury but remains in the lineup as DH. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts discussed managing Ohtani's condition, while Kiké Hernández will miss the White House visit. Key moments included home runs from Tim Tawa and Gabriel Moreno, and a strong pitching performance from Eduardo Rodriguez.
Dodgers pitcher Brock Stewart watches Arizona’s Tim Tawa runs the bases after hitting a two-run home run in the fourth inning of the Dodgers’ 9-3 loss Friday at Dodger Stadium.
Ohtani, will not participate in next week’s All-Star Game in Philadelphia, hit a leadoff home run off Diamondbacks starter Eduardo Rodriguez.
“I found out yesterday morning,” Roberts said of Ohtani’s injury. “So if there’s a chance that we could kind of be proactive and get it drained and do whatever we need to do to try to manage it, along with the rest for the All-Star break, we were gonna do that. “But obviously the way he’s swinging the bat hasn’t really affected performance,” Roberts added. “We have certainly curtailed the stealing bases.
But he feels good, obviously, and he’s gonna be DH’ing the next three games. ”Injured Dodgers utility player Kiké Hernández will not be with the team when it visits the White House later this month to celebrate its 2025 title. Advertisement Arizona’s Ketel Marte and Geraldo Perdomo opened the game with base hits. Corbin Carroll grounded into a force out at second, moving Marte to third, before Gabriel Moreno singled on a liner to right that scored Marte.
Carroll then scored on an errant throw to third from Kyle Tucker that went into the Dodgers’ dugout. After Ohtani hit his 21st homer of the season, Andy Pages hit a tying 419-foot blast to left-center for his 17th homer. But that was all the Dodgers would score against Rodriguez, who gave up seven hits and struck out five over six innings to improve to 8-3.
Dalton Rushing walks back to the dugout after grounding out to end the game in the Dodgers’ 9-3 loss to Arizona on Friday. Arizona’s bullpen then held the Dodgers to just two hits — both coming in the ninth inning off Drey Jameson. After Brock Stewart gave up a two-run home run to Tim Tawa in the fourth, Arizona tacked on two more runs in the fifth after the Dodgers’ second error. Stewart walked Perdomo to start the frame.
Then, Carroll grounded into a fielder’s choice in front of the plate and reached first safely, with an errant throw by Rushing allowing Perdomo to reach third. Moreno grounded out to third to drive in Perdomo. A balk by Edgardo Henriquez followed by a wild pitch allowed Carroll to score. Shohei Ohtani has been scratched from his scheduled start Friday against the Arizona Diamondbacks due to what the team called continued irritation in his left knee.
Arizona extended its lead in the sixth after Tawa hit an RBI single to left and Perdomo drove in a run on a groundout to first. Tawa ended his four RBI performance with a run-scoring single in the eighth. Reliever Alex Vesia threw a scoreless ninth inning for his fifth consecutive scoreless outing to cap a night the Dodgers probably would like to forget.
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