{"id":481864,"date":"2025-09-08T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/shohei-ohtani-hits-his-47th-and-48th-home-runs-leads-dodgers-to-victory-to-stop-losing-streak\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:30:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:30:04","slug":"shohei-ohtani-hits-his-47th-and-48th-home-runs-leads-dodgers-to-victory-to-stop-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/shohei-ohtani-hits-his-47th-and-48th-home-runs-leads-dodgers-to-victory-to-stop-losing-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani hits his 47th and 48th home runs; leads Dodgers to victory to stop losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n<strong>Baltimore<\/strong>.\u2014 <strong>Shohei Ohtani<\/strong> shone again with the bat and led the <strong>Los Angeles Dodgers<\/strong> to a <strong>5-2<\/strong> victory over the <strong>Baltimore Orioles<\/strong> at <strong>Oriole Park at Camden Yards<\/strong>, hitting <strong>two home runs<\/strong> (numbers <strong>47<\/strong> and <strong>48<\/strong> of the season) in his <strong>first two at-bats<\/strong>.\n\nYou may be interested in:<a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/baloncesto\/shohei-ohtani-abrira-esta-noche-contra-los-orioles-tras-cambio-de-ultima-hora\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Shohei Ohtani will start tonight against the Orioles after last-minute change<\/a>\n\nThe Japanese player, who is going through a historic year, tied the <strong>Dodgers franchise record<\/strong> with <strong>12 leadoff home runs<\/strong>, matching the record set by his teammate <strong>Mookie Betts<\/strong> in 2023. In addition, Ohtani was only <strong>three home runs<\/strong> away from tying the mark of <strong>Kyle Schwarber<\/strong> (15) as the most home runs in the first inning of a game in a season.\n\nIn the upper part of the first inning, Ohtani punished a 1-0 count pitch from his compatriot <strong>Tomoyuki Sugano<\/strong>, depositing the ball over the center field fence to give the Dodgers an early lead. In the third inning, he repeated the dose with another home run of <strong>399 feet<\/strong>, thus adding the <strong>23rd multi-home run game<\/strong> of his career.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shohei Ohtani AGAIN!<br><br>2 homers today, 48 this season \ud83e\udd29 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rtMExM3xuh\">pic.twitter.com\/rtMExM3xuh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/1964754151889600931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<strong>Mookie Betts<\/strong> also provided power with a consecutive home run and finished the game with <strong>two RBIs<\/strong>, including a single in the ninth inning that extended the Angels&#8217; lead.\n\nThe triumph snapped a <strong>five-game losing streak<\/strong> for the Dodgers and keeps the team at the top of the <strong>National League West Division<\/strong>, with only one game separating them from the San Diego Padres.\n\nOn the mound, veteran <strong>Clayton Kershaw<\/strong> (10-2) shined in his <strong>first start at Camden Yards<\/strong>, pitching <strong>5.2 innings<\/strong> in which he allowed <strong>two runs<\/strong>, struck out <strong>eight batters<\/strong>, and left his ERA at <strong>3.27<\/strong>. After leaving in the sixth inning, the bullpen backed the lefty to secure the victory.\n\nManager <strong>Dave Roberts<\/strong> highlighted the team&#8217;s resilience:\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I like the way our guys didn&#8217;t let themselves down. We were coming off a painful defeat, but the energy in the clubhouse was high from the start, and Ohtani gave us the boost we needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore.\u2014 Shohei Ohtani shone again with the bat and led the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 5-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, hitting two home runs (numbers 47 and 48 of the season) in his first two at-bats. You may be interested in: Shohei Ohtani will start tonight against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":481866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,13766,40230],"class_list":["post-481864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-mlb","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-21m0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/Shohei-Ohtani-Dodgers-1024x631-1.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/Shohei-Ohtani-Dodgers-1024x631-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}