Ohtani strikes twice, including longest career at 459 feet, Angels beat White Sox 12-5

Ohtani homers twice, Angels beat White Sox 12-5 originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago

CHICAGO (AP) — Shohei Ohtani homered in consecutive innings, including a 459-foot drive that was the longest of his Major League Baseball career, and drove in four runs to lead the Los Angels Angeles over the Chicago White Sox 12-5 Wednesday.

Mike Trout put the Angels ahead 2-0 with a 476-foot homer in the first that was four lines away from clearing the left field bleachers. Taylor Ward’s shot also went deep as the Angels hit four two-run homers plus a solo shot.

Ohtani threw a first-pitch fastball from Lance Lynn (4-6) just left of center straight away in the third, where the ball was dropped by a fan who tried to glove it. That 425-foot drive gave the Angels a 4-1 lead.

Lynn didn’t even turn and look when Ohtani hit a fastball more than a dozen ranges above the bullpen to right-center in the fourth. The two-way Japanese star is batting .269 with 15 homers and 38 RBI to go along with a 5-1 record and 2.91 ERA.

Ohtani increased his career total to 13 multihomer games with his first this season.

Trout fired a hanging curve for his 13th homer. Ward hit a two-run homer against Jesse Scholtens in the seventh and Ohtani pinch hit Chad Wallach hit a solo homer in the ninth against Garrett Hook.

Lynn allowed eight runs, eight hits and two walks while hitting two batters in four innings, raising his ERA to 6.55. He gave up 15 homers, one shy of the major league against Kansas City’s Jordan Lyles. Lynn had won all three of her previous starts.

Jaime Barria (2-2) allowed one run and four hits in five innings with six strikeouts and two walks.

Los Angeles won two of three games against the White Sox after being swept by Miami last weekend.

Jake Burger homered for Chicago, which lost four of five. Burger hit his 11th homer on the ninth and Hanser Alberto hit a two-run brace against Tucker Davidson.

Chicago’s Romy Gonzalez, who had three straight games, went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts.

THE NATURALS

Twenty-three people became naturalized U.S. citizens in a pregame swearing-in ceremony behind home plate/

TRAINER’S ROOM

Angels: Trout fouled a throw with his right leg in the fourth but stayed in the game.

White Sox: INF Elvis Andrus (tense left oblique) and RHP Mike Clevinger (inflamed right wrist) are set to return, but manager Pedro Grifol did not specify the status of either player .

FOLLOWING

Angels: Reid Detmers (0-4, 4.93) starts Thursday’s series opener in Houston against fellow LHP fellow Framber Valdez (5-4, 2.38).

The White Sox host Detroit for a three-game Friday night series but haven’t named a starter.

White Sox: Haven’t announced a starter for Friday’s series opener against Detroit, which is pitching RHP Reese Olson in his major league debut. Olson is 2-3 with a 6.38 ERA in 10 starts at Triple-A Toledo.

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