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Dodgers’ offense stuck in neutral in 2nd loss to Giants

April 23, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO — Shohei Ohtani the pitcher is making his quest to win a Cy Young Award look more possible with each start.

But the Dodgers’ offense could sure use a hitter like Shohei Ohtani right now.

While Ohtani pitched six scoreless innings on Wednesday night, he and the rest of the Dodgers’ lineup were held in check for the second night in a row at Oracle Park. A scoreless duel was finally settled when Jack Dreyer surrendered a three-run home run to Patrick Bailey and the San Francisco Giants beat the Dodgers, 3-0.

The Dodgers have lost four of their past five games. In back-to-back losses to the Giants, they have managed a total of just seven hits and only one run.

While Ohtani was dominant on the mound, he went hitless in four at-bats – two weak ground outs, a strikeout and an opposite-field fly out. That snapped his on-base streak at 53 consecutive games, tied with Shawn Green for the second-longest in franchise history (since 1900) and the longest in MLB since a 63-game streak by Orlando Cabrera with the Angels in 2006.

Ohtani allowed two hits in the first inning, singles by Luis Arraez and Rafael Devers, but he wrapped three strikeouts around those and retired 11 batters in a row before giving up another hit and 15 out of 16 before running into trouble again in the sixth inning.

With two outs, Matt Chapman beat out an infield single. Rafael Devers followed with a double into the right-field corner, Chapman holding at third. Backed into a corner, Ohtani started Casey Schmitt with a 100 mph fastball then followed with three sweepers to strike him out.

The sweeper was Ohtani’s most effective pitch Wednesday. The Giants swung at it 15 times and missed nine. Ohtani’s fastball also had added life, averaging 98.8 mph. The combo produced seven strikeouts in his six innings.

In his first four starts this season, Ohtani has allowed just two runs in 24 innings.

Meanwhile, Giants starter Tyler Mahle came into the game with a 7.23 ERA this season, fresh off a start in which he gave up four home runs.

But he kept the Dodgers grounded, getting 10 ground ball outs to go with five strikeouts.

Like they did in Tuesday’s series opener, when they went 0 for 5 with runners in scoring position and left eight runners on base, the Dodgers had activity on the bases Wednesday but nothing came of it.

They put runners at the corners with two outs in the first inning but Teoscar Hernandez grounded out.

Freddie Freeman’s hustle on a Max Muncy single off the second baseman’s glove put runners at second and third with one out in the fourth. But Freeman was out in a rundown when Andy Pages grounded to first with the infield in and Hyeseong Kim grounded out to end the threat.

That was the first of 10 batters retired in order by Mahle to complete his seven-inning effort.

The game was decided when Dreyer replaced Ohtani in the seventh inning. He gave up back-to-back singles to Jung Hoo Lee and Heliot Ramos to start the inning. A sacrifice bunt moved them into scoring position. It didn’t matter, though. Bailey sent a hanging slider on a 407-foot journey into the seats in left-center field.

More to come on this story.

Orange County Register

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