Two hits + two walks + two steals Ohtani leads, and Yamamoto pushes LAD 30 TB without allowing 6K runs in five ⅔ innings

Aug 04, 2025

Two hits two walks two steals Ohtani leads, and Yamamoto pushes LAD 30 TB without allowing 6K runs in five ⅔ innings
LA Dodgers Yoshinobu Yamamoto starts the away game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Steinbrenner Field on the 4th (Korea time) and pitches in the bottom of the 1st inning. AP Yonhap News



Two hits two walks two steals Ohtani leads, and Yamamoto pushes LAD 30 TB without allowing 6K runs in five ⅔ innings
Tampa Bay Kim Ha-sung hit a hit against Yamamoto and maintained a batting average of 20%. ImagesYonhap News
The LA Dodgers won a valuable victory with the strong performance of the Japanese pitching duo.

The Dodgers won 3-0 in the last of three consecutive away games against the Tampa Bay Rays at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida, on the 4th (Korea time) thanks to starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto's good pitching and Shohei Ohtani's return to leadoff.

The Dodgers, which continued its winning series for the second consecutive time, marked 65 wins and 47 losses and maintained the top spot in the NL West, widening the gap between the second-place San Diego Padres to 2.5 games. From the 5th, the Dodgers will bring the St. Louis Cardinals and Toronto Blue Jays home to play six consecutive games.




Yamamoto became the winning pitcher by giving up five hits in five ⅔ innings and striking out six without four outs. Yamamoto, who won two consecutive games following the game against the Cincinnati Reds (four hits, one run and nine strikeouts in seven innings) on the 29th of last month, lowered his ERA to 2.51 by reaching 10 wins (seven losses) this season.

He threw 88 pitches and hit 62 strikes, and his fastball speed averaged up to 97.1 miles and 95.2 miles. The average restraint was the same as the season average.

Two hits two walks two steals Ohtani leads, and Yamamoto pushes LAD 30 TB without allowing 6K runs in five ⅔ innings
Yamamoto pitches in the bottom of the fourth inning. AP Yonhap News
Yamamoto, who gave up a right-handed hit to Brandon Law after one out in the bottom of the first inning, struck out Junior Caminero on three pitches and caught Josh Law on a groundout to shortstop to end the inning. In the second inning, Hunter Peducia hit a right-handed hit after one out, but he handled subsequent Jake Maengam and Johnny DeLuca with a groundout to second base and a strikeout to rookie, respectively.




In the third inning, he silenced Taylor Walls, Yandy Diaz and Brandon Law with 11 pitches, and in the fifth inning, he allowed a right-handed hit to the lead, Caminero, and then struck out three batters and cooked with two strikeouts.

In the fifth inning, when the balance of 0-0 continued, first baseman Freddie Freeman missed a bunt hit by Walls with one out and one base, and was on the verge of the first and third bases, but Diaz struck out second baseman fly ball and Brandon Law, allowing no runs.

In the sixth inning with a 1-0 lead, he threw a 91.8-mile cutter to Kim Ha-sung in the middle of the two-ball after two outs and was replaced after allowing a left-handed hit at a speed of 97.4 miles (156.8 km). However, Alex Besia, who took the mound, then handled Peducia with a third baseman foul fly to end the inning without allowing a run.




Two hits two walks two steals Ohtani leads, and Yamamoto pushes LAD 30 TB without allowing 6K runs in five ⅔ innings
Yamamoto Yoshinobu was replaced six times and left the mound to be welcomed by his teammates. AP Yonhap News
Two hits two walks two steals Ohtani leads, and Yamamoto pushes LAD 30 TB without allowing 6K runs in five ⅔ innings
Tani Shohei hits a double to right-center in the top of the ninth inning. Image Yonhap News
In the top of the sixth inning, the Dodgers widened the gap to 2-0 by calling Ohtani with a right-handed hit in the seventh inning after Andy Pazs scored the first run with a left-handed hit and a stolen base, Mookie Betts' walk and a second- and third-base chance.

In the ninth inning, Betts hit a sacrifice fly to center field in the second and third bases opportunities made by Cole's walk and Ohtani's double to right-center, sealing the game.

Ohtani, who was the second batter from the Boston Red Sox game on the 28th of last month to the Tampa Bay game the previous day, returned to the leadoff in eight days and played two hits, two walks, and one run and two steals in three at-bats. With this, Ohtani batted .274 (118 hits in 431 at-bats), 38 homers, 73 RBIs, 102 runs, 71 walks, 15 steals, and an OPS of 0.982.

Tampa Bay's Kim Ha-sung recorded one hit and one walk in three at-bats, marking a batting average of 0.214 (9 hits in 42 at-bats).





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.