Shohei Ohtani, Will Klein and Tanner Scott carried a no-hit bid for the La Dodgers into the eighth inning Wednesday night in Los Angeles before Colorado finally broke through with a two-out single.
Scott allowed Tyler Freeman to poke a hit to right in the eighth, ending the combined bid after Ohtani and Klein had worked seven hitless innings. The Dodgers still had plenty to show for the night from Ohtani, who also opened the game with a leadoff home run.
Ohtani pitched six innings of one-run ball, striking out seven and walking four while throwing 99 pitches, 56 of them for strikes. He gave up his only earned run in the fourth when Willi Castro grounded to second, and his ERA climbed to 0.82. It was the second straight mound start in which he went deep, a reminder that he is changing games on both sides of the ball in the same night.
The no-hit push took shape across three Dodgers arms. Ohtani did the heavy lifting early, Klein came on in the seventh and retired the side before the inning ended with a double play, and Scott took over in the eighth with the bid still alive. For a few more outs, the Rockies were held without a hit and the crowd was left tracking history one pitch at a time.
But Freeman’s single ended that chase, and it also underscored how close the Dodgers came to turning a regular-season game into something far larger. Ohtani’s performance still left the strongest mark: six innings on the mound, a homer at the plate and a line that keeps his season in rare territory.
