SF Giants fall to Dodgers as Ohtani delivers seven shutout innings
LOS ANGELES - On Tuesday, the Giants’ pitching staff couldn’t contain Shohei Ohtani, the hitter, who homered and reached base three times. On Wednesday, San Francisco’s hitters couldn’t touch Shohei Ohtani, the pitcher, who delivered seven shutout innings as the Giants lost 4-0 to the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium.
“He had the normal stuff,” said manager Tony Vitello. “And to be honest with you, I thought our guys' at-bats, coming out of the gate, they were at least lengthy. There weren’t easy outs. But then he kind of ticked up in a rhythm.”
For all of Ohtani’s brilliance - the four-time MVP struck out eight and trimmed his ERA to 0.82 - the defining moment of the night was a brutal baserunning blunder by shortstop Willy Adames that ended the Giants’ (18-25) only rally of the night.
Ohtani cruised through the first six innings, but San Francisco put runners on first and second with one out in the seventh on back-to-back singles by Adames and Matt Chapman.
Following a mound visit, Drew Gilbert sent a deep fly ball that faded at the center-field warning track. Adames took off on contact, jogging without any sense of urgency.
When Dodgers center fielder Andy Pages made the catch, Adames was rounding third and in no position to get back safely. Los Angeles’ defense doubled up Adames, and the inning was over.
“I lost track of the outs,” Adames said. “A mistake on the read, too. Obviously, it’s a mistake that can’t happen in the game. That mistake is probably the most ashamed that I would feel in a game. I know that can’t happen. It was my fault. That’s on me.”
In five career starts against the Giants, Ohtani has allowed just one run over 28 innings with 33 strikeouts. Ohtani’s 0.32 ERA against San Francisco is his lowest against any opponent (min. three starts).
Robbie Ray turned in his shortest start of the season, surrendering two homers and allowing four runs (three earned) over 4 2/3 innings with two strikeouts to two walks. The left-hander has now allowed 10 homers over 50 1/3 innings, and his current mark of 1.79 home runs surrendered per nine innings would be the highest mark in a full season.
“I just think I wasn’t hitting my spots today,” Ray said. “Fastball was just leaking out over the plate and they made me pay for it. The only thing that kept me in the game was my changeup. Other than that, it was just bad.”
The Dodgers ambushed Ray in the bottom of the third as Santiago Espinal, the No. 9 hitter, and Mookie Betts hit solo homers on back-to-back pitches to put the Giants in a 2-0 deficit.
Los Angeles doubled its lead with two runs in the bottom of the fourth on an RBI single by Teoscar Hernández and a sacrifice fly by Alex Call. Right fielder Jung Hoo Lee caught Call’s fly ball in foul territory and could’ve let it fall to avoid allowing a run to score, but Ray had also failed to retire the first three batters of the inning.
Up next
After taking two of the first three in Los Angeles, the Giants will attempt to take the series as Landen Roupp (5-3, 3.09 ERA) takes the mound against the Dodgers’ Emmet Sheehan (2-1, 4.79 ERA).
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This story was originally published May 13, 2026 at 9:43 PM.