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Shohei Ohtani threw 31 pitches across two shutout innings, facing the minimum with ruthless efficiency. One hit, no walks, three strikeouts on his birthday at Dodger Stadium.

Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani worked two scoreless innings against the Houston Astros in his fourth mound start of the season.

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Yainer Diaz homered, Josh Hader got the last four outs for his major league-leading 25th save, and the Houston Astros spoiled Shohei Ohtani's 31st birthday, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-4 on Saturday.

Instead of blowing out the candles on his birthday cake, Shohei Ohtani blew three nasty breaking pitches by Astros hitters to punctuate a scoreless outing on the mound.

It would be no exaggeration to say that ever since signing as an international free agent in March of 2007, Jose Altuve has been worth his weight in gold for the Houston Astros.

Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani continues to rehab as a pitcher during games. His latest outing came Saturday evening in Dodger Stadium against the Astros, and he completed two innings with his biggest pitch count so far this season.

Ohtani opened the day by allowing a single to Astros third baseman Isaac Parades, but that hit was erased by a double play ball off the bat of Cam Smith. Jose Altuve ground out to end the first inning. The second frame was much more dominant, as all three Astros batter struck out swinging on breaking balls from Ohtani.

The Los Angeles Dodgers are going through an unfortunate streak, with bad luck with injured players and to this must be added umpires against them. The incident occurred in the top