Whereas we should be buzzing from Shohei Ohtani's titanic house run on Tuesday evening, it was the underside of the Dodgers' batting order that fueled the comeback win over the Nationals within the sequence opener in Washington DC.
Getting into this sequence, Dodgers hitters within the seventh, eighth and ninth spots within the batting order have been batting simply .168/.235/.248, among the many 4 lowest within the majors in OPS, on-base proportion, proportion slugging, and batting common. It was a theme to start with of this season.
However on Monday, it was Kiké Hernández batting seventh, and his sixth inning single introduced house the tying run, the primary run of the sport for the Dodgers.
Nonetheless tied 1-1 within the eighth inning, James Outman pinch-hit for Hernández and doubled off right-hander Hunter Harvey to attain Teoscar Hernández for the sport.
No. 8 hitter Andy Pages was hitless in 4 at-bats on the evening, however he adopted Outman's double by placing out eight batters in a 13-pitch battle that raised Harvey's pitch depend to 37 and obtained him out of the sport.
Miguel Rojas, who began at shortstop towards lefty Patrick Corbin, greeted new Nationals reliever Jacob Barnes with an RBI single to plate Outman with an insurance coverage run. Rojas had two hits on the evening and in addition stole a base.
The 7-8-9 hitters Tuesday mixed for 4 hits, driving within the Dodgers' first three runs. He helped stretch the lineup, and contributed to Washington utilizing 5 reduction pitchers in a sport by which their starter pitched into the sixth inning.
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