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LOS ANGELES \u2014 Good luck convincing the Atlanta Braves that Freddie Freeman was in a home run drought.<\/p>\n

Read more Ducks can\u2019t slow Mitch Marner, Golden Knights in Game\u00a03 loss<\/a><\/p>\n

Freeman went deep for the first time in a month as the Dodgers took down his former team, 3-1, on Friday night in the opener of a three-game series between division leaders.<\/p>\n

It was not as if Freeman had been failing to contribute. He entered the game batting .286 with six doubles and even had a triple since his last home run, April 6 against the Toronto Blue Jays. His solo shot into the seats on the left-field side of center was his first at home since April 1.<\/p>\n

Shohei Ohtani had a go-ahead RBI single and Emmet Sheehan saw a slight uptick in velocity while allowing one run on six hits over 4\u2154 innings as the Dodgers won in their return from a 3-3 road trip to St. Louis and Houston.<\/p>\n

The Braves were in possession of the best record in baseball earlier this week, but they lost to the two-time defending World Series champions with their top pitcher on the mound.<\/p>\n

Left-hander Chris Sale had given up more than one run just once in a start this season, until Ohtani gave the Dodgers a 2-1 lead in the fifth inning.<\/p>\n

Freeman\u2019s home run against Sale in the sixth came on a 97-mph sidearm fastball and was his fourth of the season. It was also Freeman\u2019s 100th home run since joining the Dodgers as a free agent before the 2022 season.<\/p>\n

Read more Longtime Ducks fans enjoying rewards for being patient<\/a><\/p>\n

Freeman hit 271 home runs during his 12 seasons with the Braves.<\/p>\n

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Sheehan entered Friday\u2019s start with a fastball that had averaged 94.1 mph this season, down more than 1 mph from last season when he was returning from Tommy John surgery. He was throwing as hard as 97 mph in the early innings before settling into an average of 94.3 mph on the night.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s, there\u2019s certainly some things that we\u2019re trying to kind of figure out and tap into to kind of increase that, but at the end of the day, it\u2019s about getting outs,\u201d Manager Dave Roberts said of Sheehan\u2019s velocity.<\/p>\n

The right-hander allowed one walk with seven strikeouts and has 25 strikeouts over his last three outings after recording 18 over his first four starts of the year.<\/p>\n

The Braves got to Sheehan in the second inning when Michael Harris II led off with a single and Dominic Smith doubled with one out to put runners on second and third. Austin Riley followed with an RBI single before Sheehan escaped further trouble by striking out Mike Yastrzemski and Jim Jarvis.<\/p>\n

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The Dodgers tied it in the bottom of the second when Teoscar Hernandez scored from first base on a double to right field from Kyle Tucker.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers took a 2-1 lead in the fifth when Miguel Rojas reached second base on a throwing effort by Jarvis at shortstop. Ohtani\u2019s two-out single scored Rojas, who was celebrating his bobblehead night that was commemorating his game-tying home run in Game 7 of the World Series.<\/p>\n

Read more Santa Anita consensus picks for Saturday, May 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

More to come on this story.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Freddie Freeman homers for the first time in a month, Shohei Ohtani has a go-ahead RBI single and Emmet Sheehan sees a slight uptick in velocity in 4\u2154 strong innings in a 3-1 victory over NL East-leading Atlanta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facts","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nDodgers top Chris Sale, Braves in series opener - Silicon Valley Moving Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=3016\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dodgers top Chris Sale, Braves in series opener - 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