Shohei Ohtani Pitches Well, But Dodgers Offense Goes Back To Sleep In Loss To Astros

HOUSTON — The Dodgers’ violative woes are not yet down them.

Their 2-1 nonaccomplishment to nan Astros connected Tuesday proved arsenic much.

After a breakout capacity Monday, arsenic nan embattled Astros rolled retired their 2nd consecutive bullpen game, nan Dodgers discourtesy slumped Tuesday to nan tune of conscionable six hits. The Dodgers person mislaid five of their past seven games.

Though they showed signs of life pinch Freddie Freeman’s double disconnected nan left-field wall successful nan first inning, Andy Pages’ velocity connected nan basepaths successful nan second, and nan bottommost half of nan bid loading nan bases pinch 2 retired successful nan fourth, nan Dodgers squandered each of those scoring opportunities.

Finally successful nan eighth, Alex Call produced a pinch-hit double. And past erstwhile Astro Kyle Tucker, showered pinch boos arsenic he stepped up to nan plate, drove successful nan Dodgers’ first tally of nan game.

Starting pitcher Shohei Ohtani was again retired of nan lineup, for his 3rd pitching-only outing of nan season.

The truth that his capacity — arsenic he held nan Astros to 2 runs done a season-high 7 innings — included a bid of dubious firsts, underscored conscionable really ascendant he’d been connected nan mound to commencement nan year.

The first 2 hits he gave up were solo location runs to Christian Walker and Braden Shewmake. They were nan first homers he’d fixed up each season, some complete nan shallow left-field wall astatine Dailin Park, though Walker’s soared to nan train tracks supra nan Crawford boxes.

For nan first clip successful nan 2026 campaign, Ohtani surrendered aggregate earned runs successful a start. He’d won Pitcher of nan Month honors for his 0.60 ERA done April.

On Tuesday, Ohtani didn’t let aggregate baserunners successful an inning until nan fifth, erstwhile Astros No. 8 hitter Nick Allen and Shewmake deed back-to-back two-out singles disconnected Ohtani.

As he’s been known to do successful unit situations, Ohtani shifted into different gear, rubbing 101 mph en way to striking retired Jose Altuve connected an extracurricular sweeper that vanished successful nan other batter’s container arsenic Altuve whiffed.

Ohtani cruised done nan adjacent 2 hitless innings.