Los Angeles – Los Angeles (AP) – Shohei Ohtani I found myself again again, and their last theater have the perfect angels to start the season.
The Japanese superstar hit a broken home run in the ninth entry on its head of head, Lifting the Dodgers about the Braves of Atlanta without victories 6-5 Wednesday.
“If I did not get a good launch to hit, I was willing to walk,” Ohtani said through a translator. “Upon entering the entrance, tied in that last turn to bat, he felt that we really had a good opportunity to win.”
With 8-0, the Dodgers are in the best beginning for a World Series defender. They have continued in six of those games, but they already have two victories. And Ohtani has scored in each game.
“In general, not only tonight, there is a really good atmosphere within the team,” he said, “I think that allows us to return in these games to win.”
A multitude of 50,281 roared when the 399 feet shot of Ohtani sailed in the central garden and rounded the bases.
“You feel that something special is going to do,” said manager Dave Roberts.
It was not a surprise from the MVP of the National League last year.
In 2024, his first season with the Dodgers, Ohtani, hit a Grand Slam that ended on his first Bobblehead night. I had a homer in another from your draw nights.
“He continues to enter these situations and moments when you expect the unthinkable of him and rarely disappoint. That is really saying something,” said his teammate Max Muncy, whose double tied in the eighth game and prepares the stage for Ohtani.
The operator of the Dodgers, Blake Snell, said: “When he approached and it is his head night, they all knew. We knew. It is just what he does.”
Miles aligned hours before the first launch to ensure the first of the Four Bobbleheads of Ohtani this season. Like last year, traffic growled around the stadium with helicopters that showed chaos on local television.
“Simply grateful as a player to act and have an opportunity like this,” said Ohtani, who finished 3 by 5. “I think the credit is really going to Max Muncy to be able to advance and tie the game.”
Muncy left the new bate of torpedoes he had used before in favor of his usual wood.
“I think there was something good to use the Balde of Torpedo, only in BP and everything,” he said. “It could be something that uses like a practice bat and then returning to my bat for the game. That last turn to bat seemed to work.”
The Dodgers recovered from a 5-0 deficit after Muncy’s first two errors in the third base led five unwanted races against the Braves against Snell, a twice winner of the Cy Young award making his second start for his new team.
“I was stunned with the way we were playing. I didn’t recognize that club in the first tickets,” Roberts said. “We had no business winning that game, but for the credit of our boys we continue to fight.”
The Bullpen picked up Snell, allowing only three hits in the last five entries. The novice reliever Jack Dreyer won his first victory in the Major Leagues with two entries without success.
“We all believe,” said Snell. “We support each other, and it is a good feeling of having.”
For Muncy, it seems similar to the attitude of Never-Say-Die last year that helped the Dodgers to their eighth world series title.
“We have taken it to this season. It has been fun to see it,” he said. “The boys do not give up. No one has been really depressed or out of themselves. Just seeing the boys in the club house come together like this, it is a great time.”
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