Ohtani blasts two HRs to halt 10-game drought

LOS ANGELES -- Shohei Ohtani deed 2 homers successful an 11-5 triumph implicit the San Francisco Giants connected Saturday night, emphatically ending the three-time MVP's longest homer drought since joining the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Ohtani led disconnected the crippled with his 24th homer, hammering Landen Roupp's 4th transportation 419 feet heavy into the right-field bleachers with an exit velocity of 110.3 mph.

The slugger had been successful a 10-game homer drought since June 2, going 10-for-40 successful that agelong with nary RBIs, though helium inactive had an eight-game hitting streak during his powerfulness outage.

Ohtani past led disconnected the sixth with his 25th homer, sending Tristan Beck's breaking shot extracurricular the onslaught portion into the bleachers successful right. He besides moved 1 homer down the Yankees' Aaron Judge and Seattle's Cal Raleigh for the wide large league lead.

Dodgers fans brought him location with a lasting ovation arsenic Ohtani produced his 3rd multihomer crippled of the play and the 22nd of his career.

Ohtani reached basal 4 times and scored 3 runs successful his archetypal 4 at-bats, drafting 2 walks to spell with his 2 homers.

Ohtani hadn't played successful 10 consecutive games without hitting a homer since 2023 successful the last 10 games of his six-year tenure with the Los Angeles Angels.

Ohtani had slowed down a spot implicit the past 2 weeks aft helium was named the NL Player of the Month for May with a formidable performance, racking up 15 homers and 28 RBIs.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.