Detroit Tigers at Los Angeles Dodgers

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Detroit Tigers

0-1, 0-1 Away

Final
4 - 5

Los Angeles Dodgers

3-0, 1-0 Home

Snell wins Dodgers debut, Hernández and Ohtani go deep in 5-4 home-opening victory over Tigers

Ohtani's dinger excites Tom Hanks and Magic Johnson

Shohei Ohtani launched his second home run of the season and scored twice for the Dodgers. Tommy Edman also went deep.

Snell (1-0), a two-time Cy Young Award winner who signed a $182 million, five-year contract with Los Angeles as a free agent in the offseason, allowed two runs and five hits over five innings. The left-hander struck out two and walked four.

Hernández connected off Tarik Skubal (0-1) on his first pitch with two outs in the fifth, putting the Dodgers back in front 4-2. Ohtani reached on a fielder's choice and Mookie Betts walked to set up Hernández.

Ohtani's solo homer in the seventh extended the lead to 5-3.

The Dodgers improved to 3-0, having opened the season with two wins over the Chicago Cubs in Tokyo this month.

The defending World Series champions and a sellout crowd of 53,595 saw the Commissioner's Trophy arrive on the field in a blue convertible driven by rapper Ice Cube before the game.

Snell’s wild pitch led to Spencer Torkelson scoring the Tigers’ first run in the fourth.

Snell gave up back-to-back singles to Gleyber Torres and Riley Greene before walking Torkelson to load the bases in the fifth. Detroit took a 2-1 lead on Manuel Margot’s sacrifice fly.

Torkelson homered to cut the Tigers' deficit to 4-3 in the seventh. They again got within a run in the eighth on Kerry Carpenter's sacrifice fly off Tanner Scott.

Key moment Blake Treinen entered to pitch the ninth with the Dodgers leading 5-4. He put two runners on, then retired Trey Sweeney and Colt Keith for the save.

Key stat Skubal, last year's AL Cy Young Award winner, gave up four runs and six hits in five innings. The left-hander struck out two and walked one.

Up next RHP Jack Flaherty, who left the Dodgers in the offseason to return to Detroit, makes his 2025 debut. RHP Yoshinobu Yamamoto (1-0, 1.80 ERA) goes for Los Angeles.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Keith fouled out to first.
	9th Inning	Sweeney struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Sweeney hit for Margot
	9th Inning	Torkelson walked.
	9th Inning	Torres stole second.
	9th Inning	Greene struck out looking.

Statistics

DET		LAD
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
9	Ground Balls	13
9	Strikeouts	6
3	Runs Batted In	5
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
9	Hits	7
1	Stolen Bases	0
6	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
4	Runs	5
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
2	Sacrifice Flies	0
34	At Bats	31
1	Home Runs	3
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
29	Runners Left On Base	4
1	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	0
18	Fly Balls	12
0	Caught Stealing	0
173	Pitches	122
0	Games Started	0
2	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
14	Total Bases	16
42	Plate Appearances	32
162.0	Projected Home Runs	486.0
2	Extra Base Hits	3
6.0	Runs Created	4.2
.265	Batting Average	.226
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.412	Slugging Percentage	.516
.353	Secondary Average	.323
.357	On Base Percentage	.250
.769	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.766
0.5	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.1
6.0	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	4.7
29.5	Batter Rating	36.0
34.0	At Bats Per Home Run	10.3
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.12	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.81
.147	Isolated Power	.290
0.67	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.17
.143	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.031
.088	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.097
7.0	Runs Produced	10.0
0.8	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
82.8	MLB Rating	84.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0