Dodgers look for sweep on Jackie Robinson Day

Q: What are Shohei Ohtani's current streaks heading into the game against the Mets?

Shohei Ohtani has the longest active on-base streak at 48 games and the longest active streak of consecutive innings pitched without an earned run at 28 2/3 innings.

Q: How have the Dodgers performed against the Mets in their recent homestand?

The Dodgers have allowed only one run in 18 innings against the Mets during their recent homestand.

Q: When was the last time Shohei Ohtani faced the Mets as a pitcher?

This will be the first time Shohei Ohtani faces the Mets as a pitcher, with the Chicago Cubs being the only team he has not yet faced.

So far this homestand, the Los Angeles Dodgers have quietly handled the New York Mets, with the pitching staff allowing only one run in 18 innings. The run was a leadoff shot from Francisco Lindor off of Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Tuesday’s game, and otherwise no Met has crossed the plate in L.A.

Wednesday the Dodgers look to finish the sweep by sending Shohei Ohtani to the mound. Ohtani still is in possession of both longest active on-base streak at 48 games, and longest active streak of consecutive innings pitched without an earned run, at 28 2/3. The on-base streak almost ended Tuesday night, but the Mets decided to intentionally walk him in the eighth inning, even though he was 0-3 for the evening.

In each of his last two outings, Ohtani has gone exactly 6.0 innings, allowing a total of five hits and issuing four walks. There was an unearned run in the outing against the Toronto Blue Jays, dropping his longest active pitching streak from scoreless to unearned runs.

This will mark the first time that Ohtani will face the Mets as a pitcher, leaving the Chicago Cubs as the only team he will not have yet faced. As a hitter, his lifetime slash line against them is .294/.417/.603 with five homers and 13 RBI.

The Mets will send right-hander Clay Holmes to the mound, who is 2-1 with a 1.50 ERA. In his last outing, Holmes left the mound in the sixth inning with the team trainer. He was dealing with left hamstring tightness but is still slated to make the start Wednesday evening.

On the offense side, the Mets have only scored 10 runs in their last five games, with the bulk of those coming in a loss to the Athletics in which they scored six runs. They were shutout in three of those games. Tuesday night marked the seventh loss in a row.

Bo Bichette in particular will be looking to continue to assert some dominance over Ohtani. His last plate appearance against Ohtani came in Game 7 of the 2025 World Series produced a three-run homer, which most of Toronto thought would be the death nell for the Dodgers.

As always, both teams will wear number 42 on their uniforms, in honor of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in 1947.

Wednesday night’s game will be available exclusively on ESPN, the first one of the season for ESPN. Orel Hershiser will join Ron Darling as the respective teams’ color analysts, with Joe Buck the play-by-play guy.