Shohei Ohtani had his worst pitching outing of the season and took a line drive off his right leg to boot in the Dodgers’ 8-3 loss to the Rockies on Wednesday night at Coors Field.
Ohtani gave up two runs in the second inning on three hits, the key hit a well-placed Brenton Doyle double down the left field line that scored the first run and set up the second. In the fourth inning Ohtani was hit harder, in more ways than one. Five straight hits opened the inning, with more sloppy play coming in the outfield, including a bad throw by Michael Conforto that was clanked by shortstop Miguel Rojas, and Andy Pages making an ill-advised throw to third base that is reaching epidemic proportions in this series for the Dodgers. Weirdly enough, the Dodgers did get an out of of that errant throw, which