Shohei Ohtani hit a 450-foot homer to the second deck in right field in his first visit to Nationals Park, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat Washington 4-1 on Tuesday night.
WASHINGTON — Shohei Ohtani hit a 450-foot homer to the second deck in right field in his first visit to Nationals Park, and the
Ohtani’s sixth homer of the season was the hardest-hit of his career at 118.7 mph. It was also the hardest-hit home run for aplayer in the Statcast era, which began in 2015. The solo shot in the ninth inning off Matt Barnes made it 4-1 after pinch-hitter James Outman and Miguel Rojas drove in runs an inning earlier to put
Ohtani has 177 career homers. His previous longball on Sunday gave him the record for homers by a Japanese-born player in Major League Baseball, surpassing Hideki Matsui.manager Dave Roberts said of Ohtani before the game. “Any time he swings the bat he can hang the game and now being even more disciplined in the strike zone just makes him more scary.”
Outman, batting for Kiké Hernández, drilled a splitter from Hunter Harvey to right field for a double in the eighth to score Teoscar Hernández from second and break a 1-1 tie. Rojas followed with a run-scoring single.Relievers Michael Grove, Alex Vesia , Daniel Hudson and Evan Phillips held Washington scoreless the rest of the way. Phillips worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the ninth for his sixth save.
Nationals: Placed LHP Robert Garcia on the 15-day injured list and called up RHP Jacob Barnes from Triple-A Rochester. … C Keibert Ruiz was sent to Double-A Harrisburg on a rehab assignment.send RHP Landon Knack to the mound against RHP Jake Irvin in a rematch of last Wednesday’s 2-0 Nationals win in
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