00:01well it is an early start tonight at dodger stadium and they guaranteed themselves at least
00:07somewhat of an early arriving crowd with a bobblehead giveaway here tonight celebrating
00:12shohei otani's 50 50 season right you can talk about otani and and what he has done previously
00:18but he's certainly shown that he's human in this return to the mound post surgery and that's why
00:24he hasn't made it to five because he hasn't pitched well enough to get to five so they're
00:27going to have decisions to make on is this experiment to get him lengthened out and ready
00:32for the postseason or is he even one of their options in the postseason first pitch is slapped
00:36to left base in red start the game right leadoff knock it will be marty one for four yesterday
00:43struck out twice let's go one two and another breaking pitch marty offered strike three
00:51ramon de jesus the home plate umpire taking it into his own hands and how much hitters love that
00:55he has said before that otani is his favorite player just like for a lot of us and he gets
01:01to
01:01face him here otani finishes him off back footing that slider austin hayes two hits yesterday including
01:08a two-run homer fly ball right center field with this earlier start time still out in the sunshine
01:13but annie pajes has it spotted that's a scoreless first inning for otani against nick lodolo who's missed
01:20the last few weeks with a blister but the two months prior to that he was the number one pitcher
01:24in the league yeah he's been lights out swatted the other way
01:30hayes is there two hits with a home run the first game of this series two walks yesterday
01:35that sits it on the ground left side key brian hayes to his left bends down gloves and throws
01:40right on the money as usual hernandez has been playing through quite a few injuries this year so
01:46his numbers a far cry from the numbers that he had a few years ago swing and a miss beautiful
01:52fading changeup beautiful changeup on the outside corner and down and hernandez swung right over it
01:59yeah we were talking about his last course starts and we're talking about okay the era going up you
02:04can see he's kind of fighting he's trying to get a feel you see even after he's throwing a pitch
02:07he's
02:07kind of making some motions like oh i got to get it out in front and we've seen that over
02:11the last couple
02:12of outings for him where he's more fighting the mechanics fighting for that feel going for a strike
02:17out here with a runner third and he gets it by reaching 100 with a perfectly placed elevated fastball
02:23i think he just said enough's enough swung on him there strike three got him with a curveball
02:28five strikeouts for shohei ohtani and andy pajes who's been right at the front of the dodger charge in
02:35this series leads off strike him out second strike down for lodolo good high fastball up and away
02:41tk hernandez got activated off the il monday his first game back since early july last night
02:49struck him out three in a row the fortos had a good series had a base hit yesterday he's three
02:56for
02:56six two doubles on the set swing and a miss struck him out lodolo strikes out the side
03:02in the dodger second the reds have dropped five of their last six games and now three and a half
03:08out of
03:08the last playoff spot martin gets into one shot to left center and that is god a few rows deep
03:16in the gap
03:17that's his 11th of the year and his solo shot as the reds on top it's one nothing cincinnati
03:24on the board first here tonight here's ellie de la cruz with one out fastball gets him looking got him
03:30fastball at a hundred he's had two hits yesterday that home run that made things a little bit
03:35interesting late he's had eight hits in his last four games swung on a missed strike three a breaking
03:42ball and out on strikes is hayes strikeout number seven for otani as far as the schedule goes the
03:49dodgers need to take care of some business immediately here's his 2-2 to locks a curve gets
03:55a swing and a miss and he's got a season high eight strikeouts on a career high 17 curveballs
04:02he's throwing everything at the reds tonight to third and freeland two gone in the fourth
04:09so now a 1-1 pitch trevino pops it up right side of the infield kika hernandez charges on
04:16one two three four four tony who has dominated the reds so far just one big swing against him
04:22dodgers did not have a base runner through the first three innings against lodolo
04:26sharp base it from otani couple blue pits from hernandez and baez and a golden chance right here
04:32and that opportunity finds kika hernandez in his second game off of the injured list
04:37ground ball turns the middle and through hernandez comes through otani's in to tie it hernandez in to
04:44give him the lead kika hernandez two games two nights where he's made it impact 2-1 dodgers
04:55in the fourth inning this could be your ball game right here bounces one towards the middle it's got eyes
05:01it's in the center two runs single from Dalton rushing and it's four to one dodgers as a dodger team
05:13they
05:13have made a habit of pouring it on especially with two outs rodolo trying to get out of the inning
05:19and
05:19limit any more damage runner at third runner at first swing and a miss strike three finally got him out
05:24but boy oh boy to the dodgers strike here big time tony pitches into the fifth inning here tries to
05:29complete five for the first time have a shot at his first win of the year first win in the
05:35dodger uniform
05:36top to third freeland waits on it steps into a throw it's a baby across
05:42yeah it gets a fellow third baseman in haze for the first out of the fifth
05:47easy to say this is a much better performance than he had last time in colorado he needed a bounce
05:52back
05:52one two to mclean a swing and a miss and a season high nine strikeouts for otani
05:58let me guess breaking ball curveball yep why not it's working great for him in the quest to get
06:05through five innings for otani right now four and two thirds is his season
06:10right now swung on ground ball to the right side duke hernandez one hands it sprints to the bag steps
06:15on it
06:16and that is that for the reds
06:19in the top half of the fifth inning otani retires him in order
06:25and this is central right down for a hit
06:28and stravenio's second hit in his last 17 at bats
06:33now key brian hayes will cover the plate well
06:35he'd love to see the reds get a few base runners here at the bottom of the order struck him
06:39out
06:39in case with that basketball climbing the ladder hoping just going to need a year to come back
06:46from that shoulder injury it's rounded right side that bounces through
06:51stravenio up to second tying run comes to the plate
06:55robolecki's 3 0 pitch up and in and a four pitch walk to the left hand and hitting t.j
07:00friedel and the
07:00reds have them loaded and mark prior going to the mound not dave roberts so they're going to stick
07:06with robolecki and a swing and a ground ball down to third base freeland will grab it on the run
07:11throws to first and that is that so whatever drama was built up there ended on one little swing
07:18and the reds leave them loaded now I get why you don't hit Benson because they have bond warming up
07:25you put Benson and they put fonda in immediately but why not hit on do hard and then either way
07:32you have a much better shot than you do all due respect to trevino swinging a miss struck him out
07:37right over the outside corner so he strikes out three walks one the reds leave two more here in the
07:45eight
07:45reds are down four to one we're in the bottom of the eighth inning reds in danger of being swept
07:49for the
07:50first time this year this one's hit high and deep to right field way back and gone a home run
07:57michael conforto with his 10th home run of the season and the dodgers lead it five to one
08:05well he got a fastball right down the middle at 87 miles an hour and he absolutely cranked it into
08:14the pavilion and right trying to pitch yesterday at a scoreless inning struck out two hayes mcclain
08:20and friedel coming up went around strike three one gone in the night so new season high stands alone
08:27those 17 strikeouts swing and a miss back-to-back case and 18 for the game so that home run
08:35from
08:35conforto now feels extra big and just one out away from wrapping things up strike three caught a sleeper
08:42shohei otani gets his first win as a los angeles dodger
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