Ohtani blasts 54th HR as Dodgers clinch NL West

PHOENIX -- Shohei Ohtani matched his vocation precocious with his 54th location run, Freddie Freeman went heavy doubly and the Los Angeles Dodgers clinched their 12th NL West rubric successful 13 years by beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-0 Thursday.

Ohtani's homer splashed into Chase Field's swimming excavation down the right-center partition for a 6-0 pb successful the 4th inning. The two-run changeable gave him 101 RBI for the play and matched his career-best location tally full with the World Series champion Dodgers past year. He has scored a large league-high 144 runs.

Los Angeles, which clinched a postseason berth past week, won its 4th consecutive part title.

Arizona (80-79) fell 1 1/2 games down the New York Mets (81-77) for the last NL chaotic paper spot and besides is 1 crippled backmost of Cincinnati (81-78). The Diamondbacks adjacent with 3 games astatine San Diego.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto (12-8) allowed 4 hits successful six innings and struck retired 7 to decorativeness with 201. His 2.49 ERA ranked 2nd successful the NL down the 1.97 ERA of Pittsburgh's Paul Skenes.

Three relievers finished a five-hitter successful the Dodgers' 10th shutout.

Freeman and Andy Pages homered backmost to backmost starting the 2nd inning, Freeman' disconnected opener Jalen Beeks (5-3) and Pages against Nabil Crismatt. Mookie Betts added a two-run single.

Freeman, who had 3 RBI, has 23 homers portion Pages has 27.

Arizona finished 43-38 astatine Chase Field. The assemblage of 34,952 raised location attendance to 2,393,773, the Diamondbacks' highest since 2008.