A great turnaround gun that cuts through the night sky in LA! If Ohtani were there, I would win every dayLAD Opens Eight-Winning New History
Apr 03, 2025
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LA Dodgers Shohei Ohtani marked another milestone in major league history. He led his team to eight consecutive victories.
In the final game of the three consecutive home games against the Atlanta Braves at Dodger Stadium on the 3rd (Korea time), the Dodgers won a great game 6-5 with Ohtani's walk-off home run.
Ohtani took the fifth batter's box after one out in the bottom of the ninth inning when the score was tied at 5-5. The opponent is right-hander Raisel Iglesias. Iglesias took the lead in the inning by striking out leadoff hitter Andy Parz with a high fastball of 94.8 miles on the fourth pitch.
He then threw an 88.9-mile changeup on the first pitch against left-handed hitter Ohtani. However, the ball fell flat and caught Ohtani's bat, which he was aiming for. The ball, which flew at a firing angle of 31 degrees and a batting speed of 102.5 miles, slightly crossed the left side of the central fence of Dodger Stadium. With a driving distance of 399 feet, Ohtani's third homer of the season.
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It is the first time in about seven months that Ohtani hit a home run in the bottom of the ninth inning against the Tampa Bay Rays 3-3 at the same place on August 24 last year.
With this, the Dodgers have won eight consecutive games since the opening. He broke the opening record of the defending champion set by the New York Yankees in 1933 for the first time in 92 years. The Yankees, the winner of the 1932 World Series, won seven consecutive games the following year.
In addition, the eight-game winning streak is the most since the Dodgers moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1958. The Dodgers won six consecutive games in 1981, breaking the record the previous day for the first time in 44 years and adding one win on the day. For reference, the Dodgers' record for the most consecutive wins in a row is 10 consecutive wins, which was set in 1955 when they were in Brooklyn.
It is a Dodgers that has nothing to be rough about. Before the game, manager Dave Roberts said "I know mathematically that we can't win 162 games and lose, but every time we go out to the field every day, I feel like we're going to win." Six of the Dodgers' eight wins are come from behind. The Dodgers are unlikely to lose.
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But early in the game was Atlanta's pace. He took advantage of Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy's throwing error in the top of the first inning to score two runs. While Muncy, who caught Brian Delacruz's ground ball with runners on first and second bases with two outs, second baseman Marcel Ozuna homered, and with two outs and runners on first and third, Nick Allen's left double scored to lead 2-0.
Atlanta then set up a chance with one out and runners on first and third base in the top of the second inning when lead Stewart Fairchild got on base due to Muncy's second error of the day. And Ajie Albies' double and Olsen's double added three runs to make it 5-0.
However, the Dodgers recovered two runs in the bottom of the second inning with Tommy Edman's two-run homer to the center, followed 3-5 with Confoto's solo shot to the center in the fourth inning. The Dodgers' lineup, which continued its lull, exploded again in the eighth inning. Muncy, who provided an excuse for an early large number of runs in the second and third base chances made by Confoto's right-handed hit, Will Smith's walk, and Edman's groundout to the first base, hit a double to the right-center and brought all the runners together to tie the game 5-5. It's like I'm determined.
And in the bottom of the ninth inning, Ohtani completed a great reversal.
Ohtani, who went 3 for 5 with an RBI and a run scored, marked a season batting average of 0.333 (10 for 30), three homers, three RBIs, 11 runs, two steals, seven walks, six strikeouts and an OPS of 1.126.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
