Flaherty wins in Dodgers debut, Ohtani reaches 30-30 mark - ESPN

OAKLAND, Calif. — Jack Flaherty pitched six sharp innings in his Dodgers debut, and Los Angeles snapped a three-game losing streak by defeating the Oakland Athletics 10-0 on Saturday night.

Shohei Ohtani stole three bases for Los Angeles to give him 31 on the season to go with his 33 homers. This is just the fourth time a Dodgers player has reached the 30-30 club in a season, with only three players in the majors doing so faster than Ohtani, who accomplished the feat in the 111th game of the season. Eric Davis was the fastest to do it, in 1987, when he reached it in the Cincinnati Reds' 105th game.

Flaherty (8-5) had his big performance in his first game since being acquired on Tuesday from the Detroit Tigers in a trade-deadline deal. He paid immediate dividends for a struggling Dodgers team that had lost five of six games before he took the mound in Oakland.

«Anytime you get a chance to help a team win, that's all that matters. That's the important part about it,» Flaherty said. «I'll take the time tonight and kind of let it soak it all in.»

He allowed five hits and one walk and struck out seven in an impressive performance. He ended his outing by escaping a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the sixth by inducing two groundouts and a strikeout.

«It was slowly getting into a rhythm. I think as the game went on, we got into a rhythm,» Flaherty said. «We got better in sync, and that's kind of the nature of the game. And [catcher] Will [Smith] did a really good job of making adjustments.»

The Dodgers' starters had combined for a 5.88 ERA over the previous 28 games — second worst in the majors during that span, contributing to the move to acquire Flaherty.

«I thought there was a quiet intensity to him,» Los Angeles manager Dave