Shohei Ohtani crushed his National League-leading 27th home run while going 3-for-5 with two runs and two RBIs Tuesday as the Los Angeles Dodgers walked off 6-5 winners against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Ohtani, who doubled and scored in the first, gave the Dodgers a 4-3 seventh-inning lead by driving a high-inside 1-0 slider from Justin Martinez deep into the bleachers in right-center.
On Dodger Stadium's "Japanese Heritage Night" commemorating the country's players in Major League Baseball, Ohtani took his career MLB RBI tally to 501, making him the third Japanese after Ichiro Suzuki and Hideki Matsui to reach 500.
Ohtani also moved two homers away from 200 in MLB, a milestone never before reached by a Japanese.
The Diamondbacks scored single runs in the eighth and ninth to take the lead. The Dodgers, down to their last out in the ninth after Ohtani struck out, tied it on doubles by Will Smith and Freddie Freeman, and a Teoscar Hernandez single ended it.
Seiya Suzuki hit his 11th homer, and his first in three games, in the Chicago Cubs' 6-4 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies.
With his team trailing 6-1 in the ninth with two on and no outs, Suzuki drove a fat 3-1 fastball out to center at Wrigley Field to get the Cubs back in the game.
"I managed to take the count to one where I could give it my best swing," said Suzuki, who went 2-for-4 while his team produced just five total hits.
Masataka Yoshida went 3-for-5 with one run and one RBI for the Boston Red Sox in an 8-3 win over the Miami Marlins.
"This is the result of being able to judge strikes and balls well and then hammering the first fat pitches I got," Yoshida said.
