Ohtani, La Dodgers Lose No-Hit Bid in 8th Against Rockies
la dodgers carried a combined no-hit bid through seven innings on Wednesday night before Tyler Freeman broke it up with a two-out single in the eighth. Shohei Ohtani, Will Klein and Tanner Scott had the Rockies without a hit until Freeman lined one to right on May 27, 2026.
Ohtani Sets the Pace
Ohtani did more than keep the ball off barrels. He worked six innings of one-run ball, struck out seven and walked four, then left after 99 pitches, 56 for strikes. He also hit a leadoff home run in the bottom of the first, giving him a home run in his second straight mound start.
The lone run against him came in the fourth on Willi Castro’s groundout to second. Even with that blemish, Ohtani lowered the margin of damage to one run and raised his ERA to 0.82, a number that shows how little traffic he has allowed across his mound work.
Klein Handles the Seventh
Will Klein took over in the seventh and kept the no-hit bid alive. He retired the side, and an inning-ending double play cleared the frame without trouble.
That set up Tanner Scott for the eighth, where the first real crack in the game appeared. Freeman’s two-out single to right ended the no-hit chance and forced the Dodgers to finish the night as a one-hit team instead of taking the rare combined no-hitter into the final innings.
Scott Ends the Bid
Scott’s inning was the turning point, but the larger story was how long the Dodgers had held it together. Seven hitless innings from Ohtani and Klein left the club one clean frame away from a combined no-hitter before Freeman stopped it.
For the Dodgers, the near miss still left a clean line of work from three arms and another productive night from Ohtani on both sides of the game. The eighth-inning single erased the no-hitter, but it did not erase six sharp innings from the mound and a first-inning homer from the top of the order.
