Shohei Ohtani homered on the first pitch of the game before throwing five sharp innings of three-hit ball in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 4-0 victory over the San Diego Padres. Ohtani drove Randy Vásquez’s game-opening high fastball 398 feet to center for his eighth homer of the season and his 27th career leadoff homer. On the mound, Ohtani struck out four with two walks while lowering his ERA to 0.73 over eight starts. Four relievers completed a five-hitter as the Dodgers took two of three in the rivalry series. San Diego scored just five runs in the series, getting shut out over the final 15 innings.

The San Diego Padres snapped the Los Angeles Dodgers’ five-game winning streak with a 1-0 victory. Miguel Andujar homered off Yoshinobu Yamamoto in the first inning, and Michael King struck out nine during seven sharp innings of four-hit ball. Mason Miller finished the Padres’ five-hitter in their fourth consecutive victory, but only after San Diego’s vaunted closer walked his first two batters on nine pitches on the way to his 15th save. Shohei Ohtani had two hits for the Dodgers in a pitching-dominated first game of the season between these Southern California rivals.