The National League pitcher of the month for March/April, who walked twice, drove in a run and scored a pair of runs as a hitter in Monday’s series opener at Daikin Park, makes his first pitching start of May on Tuesday night against the Houston Astros.
Shohei Ohtani has allowed only four runs to date this season, two of them unearned, which has aided his ability to complete six innings in all five of his starts. Completing at least six innings has been the norm this season for the Dodgers rotation,
whose 5.83 innings on average are tops in the majors.
Dodgers starters have completed six innings in 23 of their 35 games thus far in 2026, three more than the next-most in the majors. Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched six innings in Monday night’s win in Houston, and has lasted at least six innings in six of his seven starts. Tyler Glasnow lasted at least six innings in his first five starts before 5 2/3 last Wednesday at home against the Miami Marlins.
Yamamoto, Glasnow, and Ohtani each started the season with five straight starts of at least six innings, with Ohtani getting his chance to extend that streak on Tuesday night. The last time a Dodgers starter opened the season with a longer streak was 2023, when Clayton Kershaw did so in his first six starts. Kershaw, like Ohtani, won National League pitcher of the month for March/April that year, too.
Ohtani’s longest streak of starts with at least six innings is six straight, from July 6-August 18, 2021 while with the Angels.
Major league teams this season are 253-116 (.686) when their starting pitcher completes six innings. The Dodgers are 16-7 (.696) in such games.
Tuesday game info
- Teams: Dodgers at Astros
- Ballpark: Daikin Park, Houston
- Time: 5:10 p.m. PT
- TV: SportsNet LA, TBS
- Radio: AM 570 (English), KTNQ 1020 AM (Spanish)
