00:01Oriole Park at Camden Yards the series finale for the Dodgers and Orioles it's the road trip finale for the
00:06Dodgers and they've won each of the first five games in the last two in a heartbreaking fashion back to
00:13back walk off losses see if the O's could finish off the sweep behind Tomoyuki Sugato he's trying to get
00:19back on track after a couple of starts.
00:22Now again his last starts you know he only pitches three and a third up in San Francisco gives up
00:2710 hits the key of course keep the ball in the ballpark Devers hit a home run the first inning
00:32but the Orioles did not play well defensively.
00:35So here's Shohei Ohtani.
00:37These two have faced each other before not yet on the major league stage until today but back in June
00:43of 2015 Sugano's Giants on the road visiting Ohtani's fighters.
00:48Ohtani cloppers the ball right center field carrying back toward the wall it's out of here a leadoff shot from
00:56Shohei to give the Dodgers the first lead his 12th leadoff home run of the year that ties Mookie Betts
01:03franchise mark of 12 set back in 2023.
01:08How do you turn a frown into a smile you let this guy be your leadoff hitter and he brings
01:13the power.
01:14Now here's Mookie Betts hitting right side Mookie swings through a high fastball there's the first out it comes on
01:20a strike count for Tomo Sugano.
01:22Yeah just up the ladder and Freeman will go up this ball to center field a rare start there for
01:27Jorge Mateo in the sun he will find it and record the second out.
01:32Back to back two out singles for the Dodgers.
01:35Miguel Rojas fielded by Henderson underhand flip DeVasquez covering at second.
01:40They get the force out of Alex Paul it's a long first inning for Sugano and it begins with a
01:46Shohei Ohtani leadoff home run.
01:48Clayton Kershaw's resume is pretty complete especially now that you factor in he's faced every single team in baseball.
01:56This is his first career start against the Baltimore Orioles coming in start number 448 of his Hall of Fame
02:02career.
02:03Swung on hit in the air to right field and deep but going back after a call he'll settle right
02:07in front of the warning track make the catch and Jackson is out one away.
02:13Strike three.
02:14We've seen the fastball we saw a slider to get the count even we saw the curveball to get a
02:19swing and miss and then a backdoor slider to get him looking.
02:23Popped him up.
02:25That's in Kim on the middle of the infield it'll be Hessong's ball and that's a 1-2-3 scoreless
02:30shutdown first for Clayton Kershaw.
02:32It's the start of the third inning here at Oriole Park Shohei Ohtani who led off the game with a
02:39home run which counts the only run that we've seen so far to bat first against Tomo Sugano.
02:43And he has faced him four times in a game before Ohtani is 3-for-3 against him going back
02:49to 2015 in Japan.
02:50Ohtani deja vu right center field and gone.
02:57Showtime in Baltimore for the second time today as Ohtani has taken Sugano deep twice.
03:04It is 2-0.
03:06Sugano was telling people in Baltimore entering this series two things.
03:12It's first that if he hit Shohei Ohtani with a pitch they wouldn't allow him to return to Japan.
03:18Secondly he was going to pitch to him.
03:19He did not want to walk him or be careful.
03:22He was going to be aggressive and go after him.
03:24And Ohtani has gotten after Sugano.
03:271-1 the count to Betts.
03:28He swings.
03:29He hits a drive to left field and deep.
03:31This ball's back.
03:32It is gone.
03:33Back to back home runs.
03:35Mookie Betts with his 16th home run of the season and his 16th career home run in Baltimore.
03:43It is 3-0.
03:45Dodgers starting to look like the Dodgers.
03:47They got three runs last night that didn't end up being enough.
03:50They've got three runs early here to break on top.
03:53And they've done it all with the long ball.
03:55Three solo shots.
03:57Two by the big man and now one from Mookie Betts.
04:00Opposite field single to right for Miguel Rojas.
04:03And the leadoff man is aboard for the third time in four innings.
04:06That's on Kim.
04:070-for-1.
04:08He flew out to left field.
04:09Rojas aboard and dancing.
04:11He's taking off for second.
04:12Here's the throw from Jackson.
04:14It's a stolen base for Rojas.
04:16He went so early he didn't even have the Velcro strap.
04:19Nope.
04:20Secured on his sliding mitt.
04:21The Orioles are anticipating a bunt.
04:24Ground ball off the foot of Sugano.
04:26It brings him down to the dirt at the foot of the mound.
04:29He's still not yet up as Kim reaches on an infield single.
04:33And now the Orioles are going to have to check on their starting pitcher.
04:36It was a ground ball that hit off the foot of Sugano.
04:39It wasn't all that sharply.
04:40And Sugano stuck his leg out, I think, to stop the baseball,
04:44which is not what you're supposed to do.
04:46If he lets that roll through, it's an out.
04:47The Orioles have already had one starter leave in this series due to an injury.
04:52Dean Kramer, after three innings Friday,
04:55Tomoyuki Sugano will be helped off the field
04:58as the snake-bitten season continues for Oriole pitching.
05:02The left-hander Grant Wolfram replaces the injured Sugano.
05:06He inherits runners on the corners.
05:08Nobody out in the fourth.
05:10The Dodgers already up three to nothing.
05:12And Kike Hernandez up.
05:15Hernandez strikes out on a sweeping hook.
05:18Hernandez retired, and now it's left-on-left against Rourkevet.
05:22Squares the bunt.
05:23Pulls it back.
05:24The pitch is inside.
05:25And then Rojas is caught between, but the throw goes to the outfield.
05:28And so now Rojas scores.
05:30Kim advances to second.
05:33Make it 4-0 L.A.
05:35They were safety squeezing, and Miggie was going to make sure he got a good secondary lead.
05:40Thinking that ball is the right height,
05:43and looks like it's near the strike zone, but it was wide.
05:47And so he draws the throw with too much lead.
05:50Bottom of the fourth, 4-0 Los Angeles.
05:53Orioles right now being no-hit by Clayton Kershaw.
05:561-2 pitch.
05:58Swing and a miss.
05:59He struck him out with a curveball.
06:00He's now bookended strikeouts with Mountcastle.
06:03One down to the bottom of the fourth.
06:05Gunner Henderson, the shortstop up.
06:08Kershaw sits him down.
06:10The Orioles are not hitting breaking stuff in this series,
06:13and especially in this game.
06:14They are 0-9 off breaking balls.
06:17There's a line drive off the bat of Rivera,
06:19and that will find some grass down the right field line,
06:22and the Orioles have their first hit.
06:24A fourth-inning single, and an eight-game hit streak for last night's hero.
06:28Alex Jackson.
06:32Another strikeout on a Kershaw curve.
06:34Three Ks in the inning, stranding the two-out base hit.
06:38One-on-one-out.
06:39Jorge Mateo, the batter.
06:41Curveball got him swinging.
06:43Oh, man.
06:44He's got the hook really working here this afternoon.
06:47It's humorous when you're watching it.
06:49It's not that funny if you're the one who's trying to hit it.
06:52Oh, two-pitch.
06:53Right down the middle.
06:54Called strike three.
06:55What with a fastball?
06:56Season-high eight strikeouts for number 22.
07:01Henderson's a two-out base runner, and now Rivera will bat.
07:05Yeah, keep it going.
07:06That's a good one, Rob.
07:07Left center gap from Rivera.
07:10Henderson being furiously waved around third.
07:12Mookie Betts throw will be late.
07:15Emmanuel Rivera, who had the game-winning two-run hit yesterday, just keeps driving in Orioles.
07:21His double puts the birds on the board at 4-1.
07:25Well, nine RBIs in the last seven games.
07:28Four-and-one game out at San Diego.
07:31Two last night and one right here.
07:33Dave Roberts making a pitching change after five and two-thirds.
07:38Camden Yards seeing Kershaw for the first time.
07:41Can now salute him.
07:46New pitcher on for Los Angeles, and it's Edgardo Enriquez.
07:51Runner at second base.
07:52Two-and-one to Jackson.
07:54That ball line hard.
07:55Left center field.
07:56It will get down, and it will get past Hernandez.
07:59Back-to-back balls to the center field wall.
08:02Doubles from Rivera and Jackson.
08:05The Orioles unlikely middle of the order, and they have sliced the lead to 4-2.
08:10It was like a tee shot hit by Alex Jackson.
08:13A hundred and one bottom part of the strike zone, and as you said, Brad, this is suddenly a closer
08:18ballgame.
08:184-2 Dodgers, bottom seven.
08:20The Orioles on the corner is in, only one out.
08:23And Jeremiah Jackson steps into the spotlight.
08:26Swing and a miss.
08:27Strike three.
08:28Out number two in the seventh.
08:30Wearing out that outer half of the plate here.
08:33This one a little bit lower and a little bit edgier gets it done.
08:37It will be up to Ryan Mountcastle with two outs.
08:40Still first and third.
08:41Here comes the 2-2.
08:42He struck him out.
08:459-8 on the fastball from Robleski.
08:48He strands a pair and keeps the Dodgers up by a pair.
08:52Hunter Henderson is going to start off the bottom of the eighth inning.
08:56Robleski's ninth pitch to Henderson.
08:57Jackson is strike three.
09:00Got a call on the outside corner.
09:03Oh, man, what a pitch.
09:05A slider that grazed the corner and a big strikeout the third of the game for Robleski.
09:10Four straight tickets punched by Justin Robleski.
09:14If you keep throwing the ball like that, there's going to be nobody up in the Dodger bullpen.
09:18No protection necessary when you're doing this.
09:21On the eighth pitch, Jackson takes strike three at the knees.
09:26Justin Robleski is mowing the Orioles down.
09:31Striking out the side.
09:32Five in a row.
09:33And Ohtani will walk a third time.
09:36And Shohei Ohtani reached five times now today.
09:39Just a two-run ball game.
09:41Dodgers can open it up.
09:42Mookie Betts homered back in the third.
09:44He's one for four.
09:46Rort Fett, the lead runner at second.
09:48Ohtani behind him at first.
09:49Betts steps on it.
09:51Hit well.
09:52Left field toward the wall.
09:53It's off the top of the wall.
09:55Rort Fett's going to score.
09:57Ohtani stopping at second.
10:00It ends up being a long RBI single for Mookie Betts.
10:04Mookie thought he got it all, but this ball today is not carrying as well.
10:10I don't know what Shohei was doing and why he was watching two.
10:14He thought it was a dinger maybe because of the way Mookie came out of the box.
10:18Up three runs.
10:19Jack Dreyer needs the final three outs.
10:22And now the Orioles down to their last out.
10:24Seven consecutive strikeouts.
10:27So, Matteo, the number eight hitter, 0 for three.
10:30And that will snap the strikeout streak.
10:32A base hit to right center.
10:34Matteo reaches.
10:35And on to the number nine spot.
10:38Ground ball to third.
10:39Rojas scoops and throws on the run.
10:42In time.
10:43And at last, that's a win for L.A.
10:46The Dodgers snap the five-game skid and salvage a win on the road trip taking this Baltimore finale 5
10:54-2.
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