One day after Shohei Ohtani supplied a much-needed victory for the Los Angeles Dodgers to prevent an empty road trip, the club is set to start a three-day visit back home with a series against the Colorado Rockies on Monday.
Ohtani hit a pair of home runs in Sunday's 5-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. The Dodgers (79-64) recorded their lone win on a six-game road trip that also included a visit to Pittsburgh.
The victory helped erase some of the misery from Saturday's wild spectacle that saw Los Angeles right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto lose a no-hitter with two outs in the ninth inning before Baltimore rallied for an improbable victory.
"I do like the way that our guys weren't downtrodden," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Sunday. "We were kind of up, looking forward to playing a b