Dodgers Notes: LA Officially Releases Veteran, Shohei Ohtani Won’t Play Thursday, Roki Sasaki Decision Explained

The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants, 4-0, on Wednesday evening, breaking their four-game losing streak to improve to 25-18 on the year.

Two-way star Shohei Ohtani wasn't in the starting lineup, but took the mound and punched out eight Giants across scoreless seven frames as he improved his microscopic ERA to 0.82 on the year.

The scoring started in the third inning as Santiago Espinal and Mookie Betts hit back-to-back home runs that put the Dodgers up 2-0. The next inning, a Teoscar Hernández single put another run on the board, and Alex Call hit a sacrifice fly to get Hernández back around, as well.

That was more than enough scoring for Ohtani on another dominant pitching night.

Ohtani didn't hit on Wednesday and will also be out of the lineup on Thursday. Manager Dave Roberts spoke earlier this week on his decision having less to do with his concern of Ohtani's .150 batting average during the month May, and more to give him a break as a two-way player who is thriving as one of the game's best pitchers.

“I think it’s just more of, kind of thinking that it might just be a good thing to take a little bit of a load off his plate offensively,” Roberts said.

In other news, the Dodgers officially released a veteran infielder after spending multiple seasons in the organization. A promising spring training left hope for the 30-year-old to finally break through and get back to the show for the first time since 2024, but his minor league struggles in Oklahoma City left the Dodgers to release him.

Finally, president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman spoke on why right-hander Roki Sasaki hasn't moved down to Triple-A Oklahoma City. The 24-year-old has a 5.88 ERA across seven starts thus far, but after proving last October how valuable he can be on the mound when he is on, the plan remains to keep him in the rotation in hopes to get him closer to his peak form.

Here’s all the latest Dodgers news and stories (click the headline for the full article):

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