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Shohei Ohtani plays stopper, cruising through 7 shutout frames – Dodgers Digest

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Shohei Ohtani plays stopper, cruising through 7 shutout frames – Dodgers Digest

The Dodgers have snapped their four-game losing streak by finally putting together a decent game against the rival Giants, as Shohei Ohtani mostly cruised through seven shutout innings and the offense did … enough in a 4-0 win.

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Let’s start with Shohei Ohtani, who put the team on his back as a stopper and really looks like he might win the NL Cy Young Award.

Things started with a mini-threat, as a two-out walk and single forced him to get serious with his first strikeout, but then he cruised through an 11-pitch 2nd frame.

A two-out walk and balk in the 3rd was snuffed out, and he then struck out the side in the 4th.

Ohtani struck out two more in a scoreless 5th, and worked around a one-out single in the 6th before facing his first real threat in the 7th. He started with an out, but then gave up back-to-back singles as his pitch count crept over 100. However, a weird ending to his outing happened, as he got an inning-ending double play after a flyout to Andy Pages on a ball where Willy Adames presumably lost count of the outs or something.

In a way, it almost felt like he could’ve been more dominant somehow, he was that sharp: 7 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 8 K, 105 Pitches.

Seven shutout innings for Ohtani reduces his ERA just 0.15 points. #Sub1ERAProblems

— Chad Moriyama (@chadmoriyama.bsky.social) May 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM

Been a while since posting these starting pitching highlight tapes.

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Early on it looked like much of the same against Robbie Ray, as they left a two-out single in the 1st and then stranded a lead-off double in the 2nd. However, they did things the easy way in the 3rd, as Santiago Espinal (!) started the scoring with his first homer of the year and as a Dodger, then Mookie Betts went back-to-back with him with his third of the year to make it 2-0 just like that.

In a minor miracle, they rallied in the 4th as well. Kyle Tucker started with another double, and this time was immediately cashed in on a single from Teoscar Hernandez.

Teoscar got to second on a passed ball, then Miguel Rojas singled to corner the runners, and Alex Call plated a run with a sac fly to make it 4-0 Dodgers.

In the 5th, a walk, stolen base, and walk was sandwiched between two outs, and that was all for Ray. Their pen took over and ended that inning, and faced the minimum in the 6th. They went down quietly in the 7th, and couldn’t take advantage of two two-out singles in the 8th.

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To close the game out for the Dodgers, it was Tanner Scott in the 8th, who allowed just a two-out single and error by Alex Call to allow an extra base. That was it, though.

The 9th belonged to Kyle Hurt, which started ominously with a lead-off double, but he got the next three to complete the shutout.

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Goobers.

This is Luis Arraez‘s World Series, apparently.

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25-18, a win!

In the series finale, the Dodgers look to get even behind Emmet Sheehan against Landen Roupp on MLB Network at 4:10 PM HT/7:10 PM PT/10:10 PM ET.

I am going on vacation for a bit, so you’ll be having substitute recappers for a bit. Be nice!

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