The Sports Report: Shohei Ohtani is a master of all pitches in win

From Jack Harris : Ever since resuming two-way duties earlier this year, Shohei Ohtani had been throwing the ball well.

It wasnt until Wednesday, however, that he finally pitched like a frontline starter, too.

Coming off his second career Tommy John surgery this year, Ohtani immediately lit up the radar gun with 100-mph fastballs and amassed gaudy strikeout totals with a devastating sweeper.

In his first eight pitching starts of the season, he gave up just five runs in 16 innings for a 2.37 ERA, racked up 25 punchouts against just five walks, and looked every bit of the hard-throwing ace he was before spending a year-and-a-half rehabbing his right elbow and only serving as a designated hitter.

But, during that time, Ohtani was also throwing in only short bursts, as part of a deliberate effort to slowly build him up.

He tossed one inning in his first two starts.

Two innings, then three, then four, in each pair of outings after that.

Rarely did he face a lineup two times through.

At no point did he see the same batter three times in the same game.

I think were still in the [process of] finding out who he is, what he is, getting his bearings for him, manager Dave Roberts acknowledged ahead of Wednesdays game.

But, the skipper added, Im expecting him to get through five [tonight], pitch well and just continue to get better.

In the Dodgers 5-1 win over the Cincinnati Reds, Ohtani was indeed better.

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Whats up with that? Dodgers box score MLB scores MLB standings ANGELS Adolis Garcia, Joc Pederson and Kyle Higashioka each hit a three-run homer, Corey Seager went deep a team-leading 21st time and the Texas Rangers blew out the Angels 20-3 on Wednesday night.

Garcias 17th home run highlighted a four-run first inning, Pederson made it 7-1 in the second with his seventh of the season and Seager added a two-run shot in the fourth.

Higashiokas 10th homer for a 20-3 lead came on the last of 21 pitches all between 30 and 40 mph from Oswald Peraza, who moved to the mound from first base in the seventh and allowed eight runs while getting one out.

Continue reading here Angels box score MLB scores MLB standings USC FOOTBALL From Ryan Kartje : Following public uproar over the potential end of their 100-year old football rivalry, USC has made an amended offer to Notre Dame that would extend their annual series for multiple years beyond this season, USC athletic director Jennifer Cohen told The Times.

Negotiations remain ongoing between the two schools, but Cohen said she is really hopeful that USCs new offer, which better accommodates Notre Dames preference for a long-term deal, would lead to an agreement very soon.

Were trying to extend the series, Cohen said.

This is an important series for us and for our fans and for our program, and hopefully we get to a resolution that supports that and is in the best interest of our program.

Continue reading here GALAXY From Kevin Baxter : The Galaxy, stumbling through the worst season in the franchises long history, has looked to the Leagues Cup, a tournament with little pedigree and no real history, to salvage the year.

And for much of the monthlong competition that worked, with the Galaxy cruising into the tournament semifinals unbeaten.

But reality and the Seattle Sounders caught up with them Wednesday, when goals from Pedro de la Vega and Osaze De Rosario gave Seattle a 2-0 victory and a spot in Sundays Leagues Cup final against Lionel Messi and Inter Miami.

The Galaxy will play host to Orlando City, a 3-1 loser in the other semifinal, in Sundays third-place game, where a berth in next seasons CONCACAF Champions Cup will be on the line.

Continue reading here Galaxy summary THIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY 1886 Richard Sears beats R.

Livingston Beeckman 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-4 to win his sixth straight U.S.

national tennis championship.

1888 Henry Slocum defeats Howard Taylor 6-4, 6-1, 6-0 to win the eighth U.S.

mens national tennis championship.

Slocum, last years runner-up, is the first mens champion other than Richard Sears.

Sears, the U.S.

champion from 1881-1887, retired last year.

1908 Fred McLeod wins the U.S.

Open golf title with a one-stroke victory over Willie Smith in a playoff.

1922 The oldest American international team golf match, the Walker Cup, is established with the U.S.

beating Britain 8-4.

1949 The U.S.

takes the Davis Cup, topping Australia 4-1.

1950 Althea Gibson becomes the first Black player to compete in the U.S.

Open.

Gibson wins her first round match, defeating Barbara Knapp of Britain 6-2, 6-2 at Forest Hills in New York.

1977 The Cosmos beat the Seattle Sounders 2-1 at Portland, Ore., to win their second NASL title.

Giorgio Chinaglias header in the 77th minute is the winning goal.

1989 Pete Sampras, 18, wins his first U.S.

Open singles match in four sets over Agustin Moreno of Mexico.

1990 Stefan Edberg becomes the first top-seeded player since John Newcombe in 1971 to lose in the first round of the U.S.

Open.

Edberg loses to Alexander Volkov of the Soviet Union, 6-3, 7-6, 6-2.

1994 Tiger Woods, 18, becomes the youngest winner in the history of the U.S.

Amateur Golf Championship, capturing the last three holes of his 36-hole title match against Trip Kuehne.

1995 Monica Seles, plays in her first Grand Slam tournament in more than 2 1-2 years and beats Ruxandra Dragomir 6-3, 6-1 in first round of the U.S.

Open.

2004 The U.S.

womens basketball team goes through the Athens Olympics undefeated to win its 5th Olympic gold medal, beating Australia 74-63 in the final.

2004 Led by San Antonio Spurs shooting guard Manu Ginobili, Argentina beats Italy 84-69 for the Olympic basketball gold medal in Athens; star-studded U.S.

team takes bronze.

2008 Top-seeded Ana Ivanovic is ousted from the U.S.

Open, beaten by 188th-ranked Julie Coin 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 in the second round.

Never before in the Open era that began in 1968 had the No.

1 woman lost this early in the tournament.

2014 Acknowledging he didnt get it right with a two-game suspension for Ravens running back Ray Rice, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announces tougher penalties for players accused of domestic violence, including six weeks for a first offense and at least a year for a second.

2022 Tour Championship, Mens Golf, East Lake GC: Irishman Rory McIlroy wins $18 million with one-stroke win over Scottie Scheffler and Im Sung-jae; becomes first three-time winner of the FedEx Cup.

THIS DAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY 1918 Tris Speaker was suspended for the rest of the season because of his assault on umpire Tom Connolly after a dispute at home plate in Philadelphia.

1926 Emil Levsen of the Cleveland Indians pitched two complete-game victories over the Boston Red Sox, 6-1 and 5-1.

He did not strike out a batter in either game.

The Indians used the identical lineup in both games.

1951 The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the New York Giants 2-0, snapping the Giants 16-game winning streak.

The streak enabled the Giants to cut the Dodgers 1312-game lead to six.

1971 In the nightcap of a doubleheader, Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Rick Wise hit two home runs to help himself to a 7-3 victory over the San Francisco Giants.

1977 Steve Garvey hit three doubles and two home runs in five at-bats, leading the Dodgers to an 11-0 victory over the St.

Louis Cardinals.

One of Garveys homers was a grand slam.

1977 In a 6-1 loss to the Baltimore Orioles, Nolan Ryan of the Angels struck out 11 batters to pass the 300-strikeout plateau for the fifth time in his career.

1987 Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams and Willie McCovey with 522 home runs 1990 Ryne Sandberg became the first second baseman in history to have consecutive 30-homer seasons, leading the Cubs to a 5-2 victory over the Houston Astros.

1992 The Milwaukee Brewers set an American League record with 31 hits and 26 singles in a 22-2 rout of the Toronto Blue Jays.

1993 Pinch-hitter Jeremy Hess bases-loaded single with two out in the sixth inning gives Long Beach, Calif.

a 3-2 victory over Panama in the championship game of the Little League World Series.

2003 Eric Gagne set a major league record with his 44th straight save this season as the Dodgers beat Houston 6-3.

Gagne eclipsed Tom Gordons 1998 record of 43 in a row to begin a season.

2005 Michael Memeas home run in the bottom of the seventh gives West Oahu of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, the Little League World Series title.

2008 Cristian Guzman of the Nationals became the second player to hit for the cycle since the franchise moved to Washington, driving in three in an 11-2 rout of the Dodgers.

2011 The team from Huntington Beach, Calif., returns the Little League World Series title to the U.S.

with a 2-1 victory over Hamamatsu City, Japan.

2014 San Franciscos Yusmeiro Petit set a major league record when he retired his 46th batter in a row, and the Giants beat Colorado 3-1.

Petit got the first eight Colorado hitters, establishing the mark by striking out Charlie Culberson.

That broke Mark Buehrles record of 45 straight with the Chicago White Sox in 2009.

Petits streak covered eight games, six of them in relief.

2016 Ryan Harlost led Endwell, N.Y., to the Little League World Series title, striking out eight and limiting South Korea to five hits in six innings in a 2-1 victory.

Endwell gave New York its first championship since 1964.

2021 Angels pitcher Shohei Otani becomes the first player in team history to reach 20 stolen bases and hit 40 home runs in a season.

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