Ohtani faced a two balls and one strike count before sending the baseball 390 feet into left field. He blasted the home run against an 86 miles per hour slider. The rip tied things up at one at Chavez Ravine. But Ohtani’s leadoff homer swung the momentum ...

For a brief moment Tuesday night, smiles and laughter returned to the Dodgers dugout. Mired in a month-long slump and without a home run in his last 13 games, Shohei Ohtani finally rediscovered his swing,