Justin Wrobleski and José Soriano were locked in a pitchers' duel until Mookie Betts ignited a surge that sealed the Dodgers' win over the Angels.
Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani slides into home while Angels catcher Logan O’Hoppe stands at the plate in the eighth inning Saturday at Angel Stadium.of the Angels.
“Not a lot of people can do stuff like that and be fast enough to get around the bases. But he can. ”The Dodgers’ scoring plays ran the gamut from bases-loaded walks, to Betts’ solo homer. But Ohtani’s eight-inning trip around the bases — scored as a triple and a throwing error — was the wackiest.
“What it shows is, his effort level going around there for the double initially, and to continue to go,” managersaid. “For me that was the most telling. I think the bat speed was good, swings were good. But then the hustle — there’s just more in the tank right now.
”Ohtani’s long line drive landed down the right-field line in fair territory, bounced into the netting on the foul side of the pole and slid back onto the ground, rolling away from Adell. That gave Ohtani enough time to get to third. And then he turned the burners back on when the throw got past the cut-off man.
The universal ground rules state: “A live ball striking any screen or protective netting set on the field facing a wall or railing and rebounding onto the field is live and in play,” according to, who scored from first.
“That’s all I could see. Then when I came around to score, I turned around and Shohei was coming home and I’m like, ‘What happened? ’ I didn’t find out until later. ”Dodgers pitcher Justin Wrobleski throws to the plate during a win over the Angels Saturday at Angel Stadium.
“MVP” chants broke out from the fans clad in blue at sold-out Angel Stadium.first-inning sacrifice fly scored the only run for either team through the first five innings, as the starting pitchers — Dodgers lefty Though the Dodgers scored first, Soriano had avoided traffic on the bases more effectively than Wrobleski. That is, until Soriano lost command in the sixth.
“We really stuck to our approach there,” Betts said. “Nobody was trying to be the hero. That guy is not someone you come in and slug him off the mound. You have to take your hits when you get them.
After that, if he’s throwing balls you have to do a good job of taking it. Andy Pages, Max Muncy and Teoscar Hernández each hit home runs as the Dodgers end their seven-game losing streak against the Angels in a 6-0 win. Soriano, who had only allowed one hit, didn’t regain his footing. He walked in two runs before being lifted.
And then his replacement, Angels reliever Chase Silseth, hitCall, the eighth Dodgers hitter to step up to the plate in the sixth, finally delivered the only knock of the rally, a two-run single on a ground ball through the left side of the infield. After a four-run eighth inning, the Dodgers continued the barrage in the ninth, scoring on pitcher Alek Manoah’s errant throw that past second base, Hernández’ sharp single up the third-base line and Ohtani’s bases-clearing double into the right-field corner.
He covered all but the final three innings, limiting the Angels to two runs. The bullpen combined for three scoreless innings. Maddie Lee covers the Dodgers for the Los Angeles Times. She joined the paper in March 2026 after six years in Chicago, where she was a Cubs beat writer for the Chicago Sun-Times and NBC Sports Chicago.
Her previous stops include the Oklahoman, the Clarion-Ledger, the Salt Lake Tribune and the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer.
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