Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers enter the second half of 2026 as the BEST TEAM IN BASEBALL! ⚾️

Smith drills one left center field it is got number 16 time and again in clutch time. Spray to left center field Hernandez is there and that's a sweep for L.A. three comeback wins to kick off twenty twenty six. You can't come up empty on your bobblehead night or your birthday. Can you lead off man on Freddy Freeman up. He jumps on the first one. He sees a skyscraping drive of it's fair it's gone. It is gone. Everybody getting involved a four home run day for the boys in blue right field Kyle Tucker and the Dodgers crushed the Nationals in the first game of this road trip. They would love to sweep this series going into Toronto. They got a good start to center field. So hey O'Donnell got that sound and then it flew out of here to start the scoring center field. We were on it first now peels back with Lyle who makes the catch. But it's plenty deep enough to bring home Espinosa. The Dodgers have taken the lead the Dodgers come back from down five to win at eight six and sweep the Nationals. Cranks another he's got a second bomb. Who is this guy Dalton rushing exploding. Fourteen ground ball left side Muncie's got it. Dodgers in a World Series rematch roll the Blue Jays fourteen to two. Is this one a pretty good Max power to the Pavilion second of the season for Max Muncie in two hundred eleven. That's a Dodger. Drilled in the air to. Two for two with two home runs as Max Muncie. And it's a one run game. Just in the night Max Muncie with a hat trick Max Muncie with his second career three home run game number three the game Ender Ohtani strikes out the side Dodgers keep rolling. That's still struggling and the Dodgers win this complete the sweep on the night when Shohei Ohtani just does one half of his game. This is very well. Pax a base hit the other way to take advantage Ohtani's in Freeman's right behind him throw heads for third nowhere close to Oscar Hernandez delivers a two out and the Dodgers lead six three rushing shoots a basic to left and the Dodgers have five in the four that's been all in the store and a two out base hit from Dalton rushing. Another bullet pass a diving Horner in the center field RBI single Andy Pajas they've got eight six of them coming here in the fourth Pajas to the track and that is how this game will come to a close. They are the team to beat. Hit in the air. Denzel won't even move. Down the left field line towards the corner another has livered in the Crawford boxes Cesar Salazar is the new pitcher Andy Pajas looking for a third home run. He's got it doesn't always work that way when you face the position player but Pajas takes advantage hadn't hit a home run in three weeks. He's got three today. There is Dodgers leave no doubt today twelve to two over the Astros have a day and the Pajas Manoah's O-one. Ohtani pulls it to the right field corner. It's a fair ball Muncie is in Cole gets the green light Ohtani to third. Hey to run triple the ball in the infield. He scalds a ball to right field and sends one all the way to the wall. Ohtani unloads the bases five ribbies in his last two plate appearances now fifteen to two Dodgers Barnes to two. Strike three calls. That's a win for L.A. a series win for L.A. four in a row. And here we go. First pitch from Randy Vasquez is Suleyman hit in the air to deep right center field. Merrill is back at the wall. He will leave home run for Ohtani on the first pitch of the ballgame. He's their starting pitcher and he just homered to begin the game. And that is strike three. Lloriano goes looking for K for Ohtani sinker that time to away line towards right center field on the run to make the catch as Paul has done the ballgame. They take two out of three and they shut out the Padres. So Tony will get the victory in this game on the ninth pitch Pahez. Sands on the right center field Tatis back makes the catch. Here comes Cole. Here's the throw. Relay to the plate. Dodgers take the lead. Alex Cole with a feed first slide under the tag of for me Dodgers lead for the first time since the first inning. Bouncing ball to for those hospital there's the ball game and what a game it was. Dodgers come back to beat the Padres five to four breaking the game's best. Mason Miller suffers his first defeat Freeland's O-Two. Left center field McCarthy on the warning track at the wall. It's good. There's the feel. There's the results a two run shot for Mookie Betts first to one in the sixes Mookie Betts towers went into left field carrying back. This is at the wall. The fire comes pouring out of Betts as he rounds the bases his second home run of the game. That's a win for. It is a win for the Dodgers. They clinch the series lands this curveball to get Marsh strikeout of the day for Yamamoto five and a third here against the Phillies. Now the chance right here Freeland will charge and shovel up with the glove to finish the game. Don't use your barrier to throw the ball use your glove Dodgers flex on this Sunday rubber match three two to Freddy Freeman. In the air to right center field back goes Kraut with a down at the wall he only takes one and Freddy Freeman provides it. It took a while but it was worth the wait. Now strike three. Dots a splitter strike three. That's three high heated ninety eight finally gets him three straight Kase. Got him swinging tipped into the glove strike three with a three to cutter and he had tied him up earlier with that pitch. Fly ball from Carroll called toward the line reaches out makes the catch as he crashes into the wall Yoshinobu Yamamoto perfect through six innings in Chicago on a two to Antonelli strikes out swinging. Bouncing ball to second Espinel charges and that ends the eighth right center by his is calling for here's the first out he's coming around along with Max Muncy the south side stands doesn't matter if they're wearing Dodger blue black and white. Optima that's a win for L.A. Tony leads up. High liner deep center field it is. Over three in the air center field Paz is there and that in the blink of an eye is the ball game in an hour and fifty two minutes the Dodgers get their major league leading ninth shutout win of the year one nothing over Tampa Bay Helmsley two to. And the Dodgers are not going to go quietly. Ball for a four pitch walk to put the time running scoring position. Here's Helmsley. And he drills this ball. Good bye. What a shot and what a start for the Dodgers one that nothing like that. That was a blur. Freeman sends a high drive the deep center field Buxton back he turns and watches it hit gone clears the wall and gives the Dodgers the lead. Number 13 for Freddy Freeman on a pair of solo shots the Dodgers lead in two to one Blount's payoff pitch swung on ground ball to third Muncie's got it on a hop sets his feet throws across that's a ball game one two three bottom of the ninth now since twenty twenty two this is the fastest the Dodgers have reached fifty wins they're now fifty and twenty nine. The left center field Taylor on the run a turn and watch this one go. Mookie Betts with a three run home run and the Dodgers with an explosion in San Diego nine in the six ten for the night. At this point the Dodgers are just waiting on Ohtani and Betts to join the offensive front. There's some slug. That's what the folks came to Sacramento to see. And it came on a breaking ball. Eighteenth of the year for Ohtani is eighth in the last nineteen games. Cracks one in the air left center field. And slam ticking last night at this one Freeman launches one in the air to deep right field. The first firework of the night comes from Freddy. The sweeper just hung left on the left and Freddy Freeman launches this into the night. Fifteenth home run of the season for Freddy Freeman to double the Dodger lead Dodgers and put the leadoff man on back to back getting he's looking to cash in here with the top of the order coming up. Does so again the other way. McCarthy's going back. Ohtani is nineteen and the Dodgers are in front. And he tried to throw a cutter and that thing just leaked right down the middle part of the plate. So he let it travel again as good as anybody driving the ball the other way with power and bottom of the eleven one out pitch by Hergen rushing swings it's a ground ball that's throwing the center Dodgers win Dalton Russian walks it off eight seven to Oscar Hernandez scores rushing hit it up the middle past the drawn in infield and the Dodgers win their sixtieth game of the season in the eleven innings the first time the Dodgers go to extras this season they win the ball game. Line drive center field carries over the wall for Shohei Ohtani. It was a line driven just kept on rising kept on climbing. It's the three hundred home run of Shohei Ohtani's major league career. One one field slicing back toward the wall. One hundred percent with the bat certainly is number two one for Ohtani makes it to one Arizona. I just marvel at the fact that he's done pitching wise with a bad knee. He's put up the numbers that he's put up offensively with a bad knee. And what he's doing if you were one hundred percent and you were doing that people would bow down for Al Paco a response in the first take a look at the way this game has started his pitch down in the zone and show a putting in the left field seats and Andy Pais thinking you know what I'm going to do the same thing. Dodger offense averaging three point six three runs per game the last eight games. Some of the towering fly ball to center field a souvenir to the seats to start. Twenty seven lead off home run with the Dodgers ninth this season one nothing after one pitch. Joe he's gone deep in for four times in the last six years. Four hundred thirty seven feet.