Dodgers edge Mets 2–1
Los Angeles beat New York 2–1 on Tuesday, handing the Mets their seventh straight loss and extending Shohei Ohtani’s season-long on-base streak. (northjersey.com) Sporting News and Yahoo report Ohtani’s streak is now the longest active on-base run in MLB and places him fourth on the Dodgers’ all-time consecutive-games-on-base list. (sportingnews.com) (sports.yahoo.com)
Los Angeles won 2-1 on Tuesday behind 7 2/3 innings from Yoshinobu Yamamoto and an eighth-inning go-ahead single from Kyle Tucker. (espn.com.au) Tucker’s two-strike single to left scored Miguel Rojas in the eighth after Brooks Raley walked Rojas and Santiago Espinal moved him over with a sacrifice bunt. Francisco Lindor had given New York a 1-0 lead on Yamamoto’s third pitch of the night with a leadoff homer. (espn.com.au) Yamamoto allowed one run on four hits, struck out seven, and threw 104 pitches before Blake Treinen got the last out of the eighth. Alex Vesia then struck out the side in the ninth for his second save. (espn.com.au) The other running story was Shohei Ohtani’s on-base streak, which reached 48 games when the Mets intentionally walked him in the eighth inning. He finished 0 for 3, but the walk kept alive the longest active on-base streak in Major League Baseball. (espn.com.au) (sports.yahoo.com) That streak began after Ohtani went 0 for 4 against San Diego on August 23, 2025, and it has continued through every Dodgers game he has played in 2026. On April 10, he passed Ichiro Suzuki’s 42-game mark for the longest on-base streak by a Japanese-born player in Major League history. (sportingnews.com) (sports.yahoo.com) Within Dodgers history, Ohtani had already moved into fifth place at 45 games on April 11, passing Zack Wheat and Len Koenecke. Tuesday’s walk pushed him past Ron Cey’s 47-game streak and into fourth place behind Willie Keeler at 50, Shawn Green at 53, and Duke Snider at 58. (mlb.com) (sports.yahoo.com) For the Mets, the loss was their seventh straight, and the skid has come with almost no offense. New York had been outscored 36-10 during the streak and had gone 20 innings without a run before Lindor’s first-inning homer. (espn.com.au) The series finale on Wednesday, April 15, puts Ohtani at the center again. He is scheduled to start on the mound for Los Angeles against Mets right-hander Clay Holmes on Jackie Robinson Day, with his 48-game streak still intact. (espn.com.au)
