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Shohei Ohtani homered twice and Los Angeles beginning pitcher Clayton Kershaw took a shutout into the sixth inning and this time the Dodgers held on to keep away from a sequence sweep, beating the host Baltimore Orioles 5-2 on Sunday afternoon.
Mookie Betts additionally homered and drove in one other run with a ninth-inning single.
The Dodgers (79-64) ended a 1-5 highway journey and remained atop the National League West.
The Orioles (66-77) had received with ninth-inning walk-off stunners within the first two video games of the sequence, together with utilizing a four-run ninth inning Saturday.
Michael Conforto joined Ohtani and Betts with two hits for the Dodgers.
Emmanuel Rivera, who had Saturday evening’s game-winning single, notched two of Baltimore’s eight hits. The Orioles’ five-game profitable streak ended, with their batters placing out 15 occasions.
Ohtani hit Tomoyuki Sugano’s second pitch of the sport for a house run in a matchup between Japanese gamers. His second blast — and his forty eighth of the season — got here off Sugano to steer off the third.
Betts made it back-to-back lengthy balls by following Ohtani’s smash together with his personal within the third inning. Betts has 16 homers.
Kershaw (10-2) logged 5 2/3 innings and he was charged with each Baltimore runs within the sixth inning. Rivera’s double off Kershaw offered the primary run and Alex Jackson doubled off reliever Edgardo Henriquez to make it 4-2.
Kershaw, dealing with the Orioles for the primary time in his profession, did not permit successful till Rivera’s two-out single within the fourth. On Saturday evening, Baltimore’s first hit got here with two outs within the ninth as the large comeback started.
Sugano (10-8) has misplaced three straight choices. He surrendered 4 runs on seven hits in three-plus innings.
Dodgers reliever Justin Wrobleski gave up two singles within the seventh, however struck out Jeremiah Jackson and Ryan Mountcastle to get out of the menace. Wroblewski labored a less-eventful eighth inning and completed with 5 strikeouts in two innings.
Jack Dreyer pitched the ninth for his third save.
–Field Level Media