Detroit Tigers at Los Angeles Dodgers

· Major League Baseball

Detroit Tigers

0-3, 0-3 Away

Final
3 - 7

Los Angeles Dodgers

5-0, 3-0 Home

Dodgers stay perfect with a 7-3 win over the Tigers despite Roki Sasaki's rocky start

Freddie Freeman bashes a solo HR for Dodgers

Will Smith and Tommy Edman also homered for the defending World Series champions, who are 5-0 after beating the Cubs twice in last week’s Tokyo Series before sweeping Detroit in Chavez Ravine. The Dodgers are off to their best start since 1981, when they opened 6-0 and eventually won the World Series.

Los Angeles overcame Roki Sasaki, who couldn't get out of the second inning after yielding four walks, three singles and two runs. Detroit scored on Manuel Margot’s bases-loaded dribbler and a 10-pitch walk to Trey Sweeney.

Anthony Banda (1-0) pitched the fifth. Six Dodgers relievers combined for 7 1/3 innings of three-hit ball.

Freeman blasted his second homer in the first inning, and Michael Conforto added an RBI double in the second before Hernández put the Dodgers ahead for good.

Shohei Ohtani drew two walks and scored two runs after throwing a pregame bullpen.

Jake Rogers scored Detroit's only run against LA's bullpen when Luis Garcia inexplicably didn't cover first on Zach McKinstry's grounder in the seventh.

But Edman hit his third homer in four games on Kenta Maeda's first pitch in the seventh before Ohtani walked, stole second and scored easily on Freeman's double.

Key moment With Conforto on third and two outs, Reese Olson (0-1) intentionally walked Ohtani to get to Hernández, who ripped his double down the left-field line.

Key stat Sasaki has thrown just 57 strikes on his 117 pitches in the majors.

Up next Both teams have Sunday off. The Tigers visit Seattle on Monday, and the Dodgers welcome the Braves.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Dingler struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Dingler hit for Kreidler
	9th Inning	Rogers struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Sweeney flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Margot singled to right.
	9th Inning	Treinen relieved Yates

Statistics

DET		LAD
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
9	Ground Balls	10
13	Strikeouts	9
3	Runs Batted In	7
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
6	Hits	7
0	Stolen Bases	1
4	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	7
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
32	At Bats	31
0	Home Runs	3
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
15	Runners Left On Base	7
1	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	1
0	Doubles	3
10	Fly Balls	12
0	Caught Stealing	0
157	Pitches	139
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
8	Total Bases	19
36	Plate Appearances	34
0.0	Projected Home Runs	486.0
1	Extra Base Hits	6
1.9	Runs Created	6.0
.188	Batting Average	.226
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.250	Slugging Percentage	.613
.188	Secondary Average	.516
.278	On Base Percentage	.294
.528	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.907
0.9	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.8
1.9	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	6.7
20.5	Batter Rating	51.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	10.3
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
4.36	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.09
.063	Isolated Power	.387
0.31	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.33
.111	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.088
.000	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.290
6.0	Runs Produced	14.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.7
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
70.3	MLB Rating	91.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0