Shohei Ohtani improved his batting average to a Major League Baseball-leading .371 with a 3-for-6 outing Wednesday as the Los Angeles Dodgers pummeled the Washington Nationals 11-2.
The reigning American League MVP continued his hot hitting after homering in the two previous games, including a 450-foot blast that reached the second deck in Tuesday's 4-1 win over the Nationals.
Ohtani drove in two runs and scored two, with all three hits doubles, taking his tally to an MLB-best 14 for the season. No other player had reached double figures as of Wednesday.
Mookie Betts and Will Smith both went 4-for-6 to help the star-studded Dodgers lineup tally a whopping 20 hits at Nationals Park.
Ohtani extended his hitting streak to nine games in his first at-bat, comfortably rounding to second with a sharp line drive through center before breaking the ice on Smith's single.
He brought home Betts on a line drive to right drive for an 8-2 lead in the eighth, then made it 9-2 with a fly that hit the left-field fence in the ninth.
