Dodgers notes: Shohei Ohtani, Roki Sasaki, Charlie Culberson

“For me, with any hitter, when the quality of at-bat starts to go down consistently, I think that’s a telling sign there needs to be a break,” Roberts said. “Because you’re just not able to – whether it’s the mechanics, the mind – just stay within your game plan, and then the chase starts to spike. There’s a workload component with some players, but that are more on the defensive side.” While Ohtani hit his seventh home run of the season, rapper Ice Cube was on the broadcast with Joe Davis and Orel Hersheiser. has more. has continued to display marginal improvements with each start, as before getting ambushed by in the top of the sixth on Monday, he had held the Giants to one run over five innings with five strikeouts and just one walk. As the team sees the improvements, it only vindicates them more in seeing the potential with Sasaki as a viable starting pitcher within their rotation, per . “We definitely see him as a long-term starting pitcher,” president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman recently told *The Athletic*. “We are very firm believers that he has the ability and the upside to be an elite starting pitcher in this game.” It’s been almost 10 whole years since hit his iconic walk-off home run that helped the Dodgers clinch the NL West during Vin Scully’s final broadcast at home. Culberson spoke with about the home run, noting that Scully was able to sign the bat he hit the home run with.