LOS ANGELES — Aaron Decide and Shohei Ohtani didn’t take lengthy to offer the game what it craved.
The sluggers traded towering house runs within the first inning Friday evening at Dodger Stadium, marking the primary time in MLB historical past that each reigning MVPs homered within the first inning of the identical sport, in line with Stats Carry out.
Decide went first, demolishing Tony Gonsolin’s 90 mph fastball and sending it 446 ft into the batter’s eye in heart subject for the 1-0 lead and his nineteenth house run of the yr.
Ohtani returned the favor within the backside of the primary, crushing Max Fried’s first pitch 417 ft to heart for his twenty first house run of the season that tied it again up.
It was a star-studded starting to the World Collection rematch.
“I like playing against the best,” Decide stated within the leadup to the sequence. ‘You want to play against the best teams, the best players. Ohtani’s positively among the best gamers within the sport, he has been for a very long time. And he’s off to a different improbable begin this season.”
Decide’s house run was the primary of 4 the Yankees hit within the first three innings.
Austin Wells led off the second with a solo shot earlier than Trent Grisham added a two-run blast — the primary homer for every of them since Could 12.
Paul Goldschmidt then led off the third inning with an opposite-field roundtripper.
