Shohei Ohtani wows early, Dodgers’ bullpen falters in loss to Astros

The launcher starting from the Dodgers had no problem on Saturday afternoon.

It was the bulk guy who followed him who encountered problems.

In a 6-4 defeat against Houston Astros at Dodger Stadium, Shohei Ohtani showed more encouraging signs as a launcher, launching two goalless rounds that included a double game in the first and a withdrawal on the side in the second.

But, in a reminder of the depth of pitching still held on which the dodgers relied for a large part of this first half, the long man Justin Wrobleski returned to the earth in an outing of five points and 4 ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ ⅔ geryenter la sortie.

The Dodgers Mookie Betts Dodgers stop is labeled by the third base of Houston Astros Isaac Paredes while trying to stretch a double in a triple at the Dodger stadium on Saturday.

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Overall, this weekend offered hope to the long-term pitching plans of Dodgers.

Friday, manager Dave Roberts said that Tyler Glasnow, right -handed dollars of $ 136.5 million, was on the right track of his shoulder problem during the road next week.

Before the match on Saturday, the left injured $ 182 million Blake Snell launched his second live hitting practice of the week, withdrawing four of the eight strikers he faced in what should be his last simulated session before making a rehabilitation assignment to the minor league. He and the wounded lift Blake Treinen, who also launched a round of the stick in the stick on Saturday, are aligned to be activated from the IL “at some point shortly after the stars break”, according to Roberts.

Then there was Ohtani, who, despite once again, limited to a short workload at his fourth start of the season, was also dominant again in a 31 step screen.

After Isaac Paredes managed to lead the game, Ohtani broke Cam Smith’s bat on a quick 96 -h / h ball for a double game group in second row. During the second round, Ohtani attracted Christian Walker with a cursor, then Victor Caratini and Yainer Díaz on a pair of large sweepers – while touching 101 mph on the radar pistol.

During his six rounds in total this year, Ohtani granted only one round, a walk and four sure while removing six strikers on what was his 31st anniversary.

And although he is not clear exactly when he is completely stretched – or exactly how much he will end up getting this year, after a second career of Tommy John Surgery – The Dodgers regularly get closer to the rotation they have envisaged this year: one with Ohtani, Snell and Glasnow probably joining Yoshinobu Yoshinobu in a last stroke. To build.

“We can see a little folds of light,” said Roberts. “It has taken a little more time than we have all waited for or hoped, with regard to our guys. So we have not yet arrived. But we hope and excited.”

In the short term, however, the astros put a breach in optimism to which the club had hooked itself among its stable of young pitch depth.

Friday evening, Ben Casparius was overthrown in a historic eruption, Wrobleski suffered a similar spell against the Houston range. Upon entering the match at the start of the third, he quickly exploded an advance of 2-0 Dodgers, abandoning a simple head of Cooper Hummel and double strikes with two consecutive strikes in Mauricio Dubón (who searched the quick ball after the ball before rubbing a complete heating in the other direction) and Zack Short (which took two steps on the three steps.

Miguel Rojas, tapped to play the third goal on Saturday in place of Max Mancy, recently injured, worsened things by refreshing on a difficult throw to first on a Smith sweet earth ball with a withdrawal, allowing a scoring race. Then, Walker, an improbable dodgers killer during his career, aligned a simple two withdrawals on the right to make a round of four sleeves and an advance of 4-2 Astros.

Wrobleski finally settled, but not before Díaz traveled the start of the third to put the astros up there.

This deficit was insurmountable for dodgers. They made 5-4 when Rojas dominated the fourth (he also had a simple RBI in the second round, and made a walk in the fifth) but failed a series of opportunities on the section, ending the day one for five with runners in the rating position and with nine men left on the basis.