Ohtani’s 28-pitch inning Monday was his first in a major-league game in nearly two years. All signs point to him pitching again on Sunday against the Nationals.

It wasn't a perfect return to the mound for Shohei Ohtani, but the Dodgers feel good about what it meant for the two-way star.

"Yeah, it changed quite a bit," Ohtani told the Japanese media, according to a translation from DodgersBeat. "My arm slot dropped, and that was mainly due to better coordination with my lower body. At this stage, we felt that lowering the angle would give us the best results, so it happened naturally."

It took five games between the Dodgers and Padres in the span of eight days for old bitterness to come through.

Roberts came out of the dugout for an animated discussion with crew chief Marvin Hudson along the third base line after the umpires warned both benches.

Shohei Ohtani hit two homers and Clayton Kershaw pitched seven scoreless innings of three-hit ball in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 11-5 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Saturday night. Ohtani led off with his 24th homer,