Shohei Ohtani ties Dodgers document with fifth HR in 5 video games earlier than Freddie Freeman walks it off

There was numerous pleasure at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday.

First, Shohei Ohtani tied a Dodgers document along with his fifth house run in 5 video games. Then Freddie Freeman walked it off with a ninth-inning, bases-loaded knock to safe a 4-3 Dodgers win over the Minnesota Twins.

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Ohtani received the scoring began within the second Dodgers at-bat of the sport. With an 0-2 depend, Twins starter Chris Paddack did not try to induce a swinging strike three with a pitch off the plate. Instead, he left a 79 mph curveball hanging over the guts of the plate.

It was an invite for Ohtani to swing. And swing he did, for a 411-foot homer over the center-field wall to safe a 1-0 Dodgers lead.

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Ohtani’s fifth house run in 5 video games tied him with six different Dodgers gamers for the longest such streak in franchise historical past. He joins Max Muncy, Joc Pederson, Matt Kemp, Adrian Gonzalez, Shawn Green and Roy Campanella in attaining the feat.

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With a house run Friday towards the Red Sox at Fenway Park, Ohtani would declare the Dodgers document as his personal.

The house run prolonged Ohtani’s NL-best tally to 37 and places him simply two behind MLB home-run chief Cal Raleigh in what’s shaping as much as be fairly the race for the 2025 house run title. Aaron Judge and Eugenio Suarez sit simply behind Ohtani with 36 house runs every.

It was Ohtani’s second house run this week that performed a big function in a win, after his two-run blast Monday in a sport he began on the mound put the Dodgers forward in a 5-2 victory over the Twins.

Freddie Freeman walks it off

With the bases loaded within the backside of the ninth, Freeman took the plate with two outs and the Dodgers trailing 3-2. Twins reliever Griffin Jax fired a 96 mph fastball over the plate on a 1-2 depend.

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Freeman hit a line drive to left area that simply snuck below the glove of Harrison Bader for a base hit.

Mookie Betts scored from third base on the play. And Ohtani, appropriately, got here round from second to attain the successful run.

Cue the Randy Newman.