Shohei Ohtani on Tuesday reached 30 homers for the fifth straight season, hitting a fourth-inning drive after fouling a pitch off the plate umpire, as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Chicago White Sox 6-1.
Ohtani fouled the ball off Alan Porter’s right knee in the fourth. Ohtani checked on the umpire and stood by watching until Parker got up under his own power. The three-time Most Valuable Player then hit a 408-foot (124m) shot to center, snapping a none-for-six skid and extending the lead to 6-1.
Ohtani walked over and checked on Porter again during the seventh-inning stretch before leading off.
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Los Angeles scored their most runs this season in support of Yoshinobu Yamamoto (8-6), staking the right-hander to a 4-0 lead in the first inning. The Dodgers won for the 13th time in 16 games and opened a season-high, eight-game National League West lead.
Every run in the game was scored with two outs.
Yamamoto allowed one run and three hits in seven innings, struck out eight and walked one.
White Sox rookie Shane Smith (3-6) got two quick outs in the first before walking Will Smith and Max Muncy back-to-back. Teoscar Hernandez followed with a RBI single, Andy Pages hit a run-scoring double and Michael Conforto a two-run single.
Chicago’s lone run came on Lenyn Sosa’s RBI single in the third.
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