00:01Well they used to be in first place atop the NL West but going into play tonight Dodgers find
00:06themselves a half game back in the division behind the San Diego Padres. Tonight it's the
00:12Dodgers in Halos for one final time. We have Otani back at the Big A for the first time
00:18facing his former team. First time facing Mike Trout since the WBC. The Dodgers are in second
00:25and that's what Kyle Hendricks would like to keep them. Yeah and Kyle Hendricks he's really
00:28throwing the ball well. You look over his last three starts. He's been mixing and matching
00:31exceptionally well. All right here comes Shohei Otani. He goes deep again tonight. It'll be his
00:37second five game home run streak in the last four weeks. Here's the leadoff batter tonight in a game
00:42where he's on the mound at Angel Stadium for the first time as a visitor. Another 2-2 pitch. That
00:49is a rifle in the right field toward the corner. Otani is going to have extra bases. This depends on
00:55how many. He wants three. Here's the throw. It's late. Leadoff triple Shohei Ohtani.
01:04107 miles per hour off the bat. That's his eighth triple of the season. When he gets moving that big
01:09body can move. And Mookie Betts comes up with the infield drawn in without an out in the ball game.
01:15Betts was not in the original lineup tonight. Once Muncie came out Dave Roberts put Betts in.
01:20Ground ball base hit left field. Making an eight-game hitting streak for Mookie Betts.
01:26And making a 1-0 lead for the Dodgers.
01:29That's starting to remind me what the top of this lineup looks like.
01:33Betts remains on first. Now one out in the first. Already 1-0 Dodgers.
01:37Brings up Will Smith. Mentioned Smith hitting 3-12.
01:40Smith drives one deep to left field. That's down the line. That's gone. It's a two-run homer.
01:46Well there's a will. There's a way. And the Dodgers have jumped out to a 3-0 lead.
01:51Home run number 15 for Will Smith.
01:54Will Smith about as good as anybody I've seen at pulling his hands in close to his body.
02:00Dodgers with two on, two out for Alex Freeland.
02:02And that's a called third strike. And that's how the inning will end.
02:06Eight batters, 40 pitches. Three runs for the Dodgers.
02:10As the Angels get ready to bat in the bottom of the first against Shohei Ohtani.
02:14Starting once again here at Angels Stadium.
02:1621-8 lifetime here. This is his 48th start in this ballpark.
02:20And obviously his first against the Angels.
02:22He's expected to go five innings tonight, which would be as long as this year.
02:25Swing and a miss. Strike three.
02:27Start of the game with a leadoff triple.
02:29Goes to the mound and begins his outing with a punch-out.
02:32Yeah, that thing's not fair.
02:34That's a sweeper on a 3-2 pitch.
02:37As a hitter, you've got to protect 100 miles an hour.
02:40Ohtani has now struck out 26 of the 78 batters that he has faced so far this year.
02:45Nearly a third of the batters faced.
02:47Here is Sean O'Well.
02:48Ground ball to second.
02:49To his right is Rojas.
02:51He backhands, throws on to first in time to get Sean O'Well two down.
02:55People have been looking forward to this at bat right here.
02:58Mike Trout, former teammate of Ohtani.
03:00First time they've faced one another in a major league game.
03:03There's something so unique about Shohei facing his offensive peers.
03:08You're reminded of a couple of years ago, the World Baseball Classic.
03:12The only time they've met head-to-head while they were still teammates on the Angels.
03:17Just like the WBC, a 3-2 sweeper.
03:20This time he watches strike three.
03:23Side retired in order.
03:24We go to the second in Anaheim.
03:25It's the Dodgers' three, Angels nothing.
03:28Taylor Ward leads off here at the bottom of the second for the Angels.
03:30What a run Ward's been on against the Dodgers.
03:32Yeah, I know the last couple of seasons, that's a great pitching staff.
03:35Five home runs.
03:36Two balls and one strike on Ward here.
03:38And a fly ball.
03:39Right center field.
03:40It pretty well.
03:41Hernandez is back.
03:42He's still going under the wall.
03:43It is gone!
03:45Taylor Ward just one away from his goal of 30.
03:48He has his 29th as he takes Shohei deep.
03:52Taylor Ward against Shohei Ohtani.
03:55Only a hundred and three off the bat.
03:57Only the second homer given up by Ohtani this year.
04:00The other was hit by Byron Buxton of the Twins.
04:03Now Marcada serves one to the gap in left center field.
04:06That goes all the way to the wall past Alex Cole.
04:10And Marcada follows the Ward homer with a double.
04:13Here's the pitch on Renjifo.
04:17Pulled in the air to right.
04:19Hernandez has a read.
04:21Marcada tagging.
04:22Catch me.
04:23Here comes the throw.
04:25Down in time.
04:26A sacrifice fly for Renjifo.
04:28And it's a one-run game.
04:31Now Ohtani shoots it to right field.
04:32Hernandez over.
04:33And he runs it down.
04:35The final out of the second inning.
04:36Taking away extra bases from Ohtani.
04:39Shohei Ohtani claims the mound to the bottom of the third.
04:42O-2.
04:43Swing and a miss at a sweeper.
04:44He struck him out on three pitches.
04:46Third strikeout of the game for Ohtani.
04:48And all three have come on the sweeper.
04:50Shot well can get on base.
04:51Trout will get his second chance at Shohei here tonight.
04:54Swing on a miss.
04:55Strike three.
04:56Pulled the string on him with a slow sweeper.
04:58And Ohtani has struck out his fourth man.
05:01He retires the side in order.
05:02Alex Cole, the left fielder, leads off against Kyle Hendricks.
05:07He tap it to the left side.
05:08Cole, booking it down the line.
05:10The throw is off the mark.
05:12So Cole books out at infield.
05:14Single to restarting the fourth.
05:16With one out and two on.
05:18Shohei Ohtani coming up.
05:19Ohtani's hitting a dozen straight.
05:21On the payoff pitch.
05:23Ohtani takes ball four high to load the bases for Mookie Betts.
05:27That will be it.
05:28As Kyle Hendricks will leave the game.
05:32Rough night for him.
05:33Mookie Betts studying right now for the new pitcher, Ryan Zephyrjohn,
05:37who was elite for the Angels last year.
05:39Bases are loaded.
05:40It's a one-run game in an important spot early here.
05:43Betts shoots a base hit the other way.
05:46Cole will score.
05:47Freeland held up at third.
05:49Four-two Dodgers.
05:51And they are reloaded.
05:53Here's Freddie Freeman, who has flied out twice to Teodosio in center.
05:56Swing and a miss.
05:57Strike three.
05:58Work still to do.
05:59If you can do this with just that one run allowed,
06:01you still have yourself a ball game here.
06:03That's where John gets the K.
06:04Now Will Smith coming up to try to do some damage with two outs.
06:08And the base is full.
06:09The three-one coming.
06:11Bases loaded one.
06:13Five-two L.A.
06:15Ohtani, Betts, and Smith on the bases.
06:17To Oscar Hernandez in the batter's box.
06:20Seven pitch at bat.
06:20Here's the next one.
06:21And he threw it by him.
06:23Struck him out with a fastball.
06:25And that's how the inning will end.
06:27So, here we go again.
06:29Ohtani and Trout, round two.
06:32Here tonight.
06:32Struck him out to finish the first inning.
06:341-0-1.
06:35Freezes Trout.
06:37Right on the outside corner, knee-high.
06:39And he strikes out Trout, looking for the second time.
06:42And Ohtani just reached back and got a little extra on that one.
06:46That is perfectly placed.
06:48Okada with a double.
06:51Okada swings through, gets to the backstop, and he's going to reach.
06:55He snapped that slider off.
06:56Not even quite in the strike zone at all.
06:59That tells you how sharp that is.
07:02Joe Adelo for a one.
07:03And there's another wild pitch, so I would be surprised if Shohei goes back out for the fifth inning.
07:09Yeah, he's really amping it up.
07:10Yeah, I agree with you.
07:13See Ohtani's reaction in the background.
07:15Head to the sky.
07:16Planned for Ohtani tonight to get through five.
07:19Grounded to Betts.
07:20He eats it up and finishes the inning.
07:23Last inning for Shohei Ohtani tonight.
07:25In his ninth start, Dodgers said five innings.
07:28One-two pitch.
07:29Swing and a miss.
07:30He struck him out on a splitter.
07:32Seventh strikeout for Ohtani.
07:34He's checked off just about all the boxes tonight on pitches that he throws.
07:38It's in front of his feet.
07:40A little blue base hit.
07:41Continues the fifth.
07:42Another two-strike knock for the Angels.
07:45Pair of runners on.
07:47First and second.
07:48Zach Neto, it'll be the third time through the order.
07:50This could be the last batter for Shohei tonight.
07:53And here's Neto.
07:54This place will go nuts if Neto gets a hold of one.
07:57See the fatigue setting in.
07:59What do you see at last inning when he threw those two wild pitches?
08:02And Neto rips one to the left field corner.
08:05That's a base hit.
08:06It bounces to the wall.
08:07Oh, Hoppe's on his way home.
08:09Teodosio's right behind him.
08:10Zach Neto's made it a one-run game with a two-run double.
08:15Most earned runs against Ohtani this year.
08:18Eighty pitches and the night is done for Ohtani on the mound.
08:22Tying run in scoring position for the Angels.
08:24Only one out in the fifth.
08:26The two walks for Banda in a strikeout since entering the ballgame.
08:30Neto is at third.
08:31Sean Ouell at second.
08:33And now Banda to face Moore who came off the bench to pinch hit last night
08:37and clubbed a double into the right center field gap.
08:41Flied to right.
08:42To Oscar Hernandez is there to make the catch.
08:45And that's how the inning will end.
08:48Leaves them loaded.
08:49One out, one on for Andy Pias.
08:51Dodgers have not had a hit since Mookie Betts' single back in that fourth inning.
08:57The ball head out to right center pretty sharply out.
09:00Teodosio to the wall.
09:01He leaps up.
09:02And he caught it.
09:04What a catch.
09:05Bryce Teodosio saves a home run.
09:08What a grab by Teodosio.
09:10What a long run.
09:11Timed everything perfect.
09:13Jumped up.
09:13Pulled this one back.
09:14Rob's a home run.
09:16Bryce Teodosio again.
09:18And a factor for the Angels in this freeway series.
09:22And he represents the tying run now to start things off.
09:26He's at second base.
09:28Here is the left-handed hitting first baseman Nolan Sean Ouell.
09:31Teodosio to third.
09:33Smith's throw.
09:33The tag from Freeland.
09:35He is out.
09:36Initially called safe.
09:38And now we wait to see if the Angels want to challenge headsets.
09:43Here we go.
09:43The runner came off the base and was tagged.
09:46The call on the field is confirmed.
09:48The runner is out.
09:49The Los Angeles Angels.
09:52Who's their challenge?
09:52That's going to be a base hit.
09:55An infield single off the bat of Adele.
09:57That ball was hit so sharply it knocked the glove right off of the left hand to the pitcher Enriquez.
10:04So instead of a double play, you've got bases loaded.
10:07Tying runs at third.
10:08Go-ahead runs at second.
10:10Renhifo strikes at swinging.
10:13Two away.
10:14One more to get.
10:15Logan Ohapi, the catcher, coming up.
10:17Ohapi tonight, one for three.
10:19He singled and scored in the fifth.
10:21And he lines one left center.
10:23A base hit.
10:24Ward scores.
10:25Moore's on his way home.
10:26The big hit for Ohapi.
10:28Gives the Angels the lead.
10:30Hits 6-5.
10:32Ohapi on a 2-2 pitch.
10:34Drilled that one.
10:35And a low liner in the left center.
10:37And the Angels are on top.
10:40It's 6-5.
10:41The Dodgers desperately need a run here.
10:43They're trying to do it against Kenley Jansen.
10:45He's got 22 saves on the year.
10:48Comes down to Will Smith.
10:49The 3-2 to Smith.
10:51Fly ball left center.
10:53Teodosio is closing.
10:54He's there.
10:55He's got it.
10:55Say goodnight to the Dodgers.
10:57This is heaven for the Angels.
10:59They have swept the Dodgers all year long.
11:02Six in a row and a three-way series sweep again here at the Big A.
11:08The improbable when you think about Shohei Ohtani on the bump.
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