Baseball: Ohtani homers for 2nd straight game in Dodgers’ win

Shohei Ohtani hit another towering home run on Tuesday, driving in an insurance run in the ninth inning of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 4-1 victory over the Washington Nationals. Ohtani led off the top of the ninth by crushing a 1-0 splitter from Matt Barnes for his sixth home run of the season. The ball traveled 450 feet into the right-center second deck at Nationals Park. It was the 29-year-old slugger’s 177th homer of his major league career, coming two days and one game after his No. 176 moved him past Hideki Matsui for the most home runs by a Japanese-born major leaguer. Before Ohtani’s blast…

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