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Dodgers’ offense stays hot in another win over Nationals

April 4, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Around the District this week, they are celebrating the start of cherry blossom season. On a particular stretch of land along the west bank of the Anacostia River, the Dodgers’ offense is starting to show its true colors.

The Dodgers scored five times in the first two innings – four on two doubles by Freddie Freeman – and went on to hand the Washington Nationals another beating, 10-5, Saturday at Nationals Park.

On their six-game season-opening homestand, the Dodgers scored 23 runs and hit seven home runs. In the first two games against the Nationals, they matched that run total while hitting six home runs.

The Dodgers got started early Saturday. A single by Kyle Tucker and a walk of Mookie Betts, who he would leave the game in the first inning with back pain, set up the first of Freeman’s two-run doubles.

Alex Freeland and Shohei Ohtani singled in the second inning. Tucker walked to load the bases. After a sacrifice fly by Miguel Rojas, who was playing for Betts, drove in one run, Freeman’s second double drove in two more.

The five runs in the first two innings were the first time this season the Dodgers’ offense put anything on the board before the third inning. It was only the second time in eight games that they scored before their opponent.

Andy Pages has not been party to the offense’s slow starts. Pages hit a three-run home run in the fifth inning, his team-leading third home run of the season (tied for the National League lead) to go with his 10 RBIs (tied for second in the NL). He also had a pair of singles and leads the majors with 15 hits and is batting .500.

Following up on his first multi-hit game with the Dodgers on Friday, Tucker was on base four times in Saturday’s runaway – two singles (one to drive in a run) and two walks.

All the offense made Tyler Glasnow’s life easier. He became the first Dodgers pitcher to throw more than 100 pitches in a game, using 101 to get through six innings. He gave up four hits while striking out nine. Glasnow’s curveball was particularly effective, getting eight of his 12 swings-and-misses. It was the finishing pitch on six of his strikeouts.

The Nationals got to Glasnow for single runs in the third (on an RBI triple by Luis Garcia Jr.) and fourth innings (on Curtis Mead’s RBI double). Ben Casparius gave up a two-run home run to CJ Abrams in the eighth inning.

More to come on this story.

Orange County Register

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