Ohtani and Freeman homer off Alcántara as Dodgers beat Marlins 7-4

MIAMI (AP) — Shohei Ohtani and Freddie Freeman homered and the Los Angeles Dodgers roughed up Sandy Alcántara again for a 7-4 win over the Miami Marlins on Monday night.

Mookie Betts and Teoscar Hernández each had two hits for the Dodgers, who have won eight of nine and began a 10-game road trip. Hernández left in the fourth because of tightness in his left hamstring. Manager Dave Roberts said after the game the slugger will have an MRI on Tuesday.

In his first major league start, Los Angeles’ Hyeseong Kim had two hits and drove in a run.

Alcántara (2-4) gave up five runs and six hits in five innings six days after the 2022 NL Cy Young Award winner was tagged for seven runs and seven hits in 2 2/3 innings against the defending World Series champions.

The Dodgers struck quickly against Alcántara on Hernández’s RBI double in the first.

Freeman made it 3-0 with a two-run drive in the third. The 402-foot blast over the wall in center was Freeman’s 41st career homer against Miami, tying him for first by a Marlins opponent with Ryan Howard and Ryan Zimmerman.

Ohtani padded the lead with his two-run blast over the wall in right-center that had an exit velocity of 117.9 mph.

Ben Casparius (4-0) relieved Dodgers opener Jack Dreyer with one out in the second and scattered one run over four innings for the win.

Rookie Agustin Ramirez hit a three-run homer off Dodgers’ reliever Yoendrys Gómez in the eighth that cut the Marlins' deficit to 7-4. Tanner Scott relieved Gómez and got the last two outs in the eighth before Kirby Yates closed for his first save.

Kim singled to lead off the fifth for his first major league hit and scored on Ohtani’s homer.

Ohtani tied Hernández for the club lead in homers with nine. He now has gone deep four times at loanDepot Park in his last two games, following his three-homer performance last Sept. 19, when the star slugger became the first player to reach 50 home runs and 50 steals in a season.

RHP Tony Gonsolin (1-0, 4.50 ERA) will start for the Dodgers on Tuesday, while the Marlins will go with RHP Cal Quantrill (2-3, 8.10).

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Miami Marlins outfielder Dane Myers (54) watches as Los Angeles Dodgers' Freddie Freeman (5) home run goes over the fence in center field during the third inning of a baseball game, Monday, May 5, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Los Angeles Dodgers' Freddie Freeman (5) celebrates a two-run home run with Teoscar Hernández (37) during the third inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Monday, May 5, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Miami Marlins pitcher Sandy Alcantara aims a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Monday, May 5, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Los Angeles Dodgers' Freddie Freeman (5) celebrates his two-run home run during the third inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Monday, May 5, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani celebrates after scoring on a home run by Freddie Freeman during the third inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Monday, May 5, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk's company xAI, as concerns grew among global authorities that it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images.

The moves reflect growing scrutiny of generative AI tools that can produce realistic images, sound and text and concern that existing safeguards are failing to prevent their abuse. The Grok chatbot, which is accessed through Musk’s social media platform X, has been criticized for generating manipulated images, including depictions of women in bikinis or sexually explicit poses, as well as images involving children.

Last week, Grok limited image generation and editing to paying users following a global backlash over sexualized deepfakes of people, but critics say it didn’t fully address the problem.

An emailed request for comment by The Associated Press to xAI resulted in an automated reply from the media support email address which stated, “Legacy Media Lies.” This was the same message received from a different email when asked for comment regarding the global backlash.

Regulators in the two Southeast Asian nations said that existing controls weren't preventing the creation and spread of fake pornographic content, particularly involving women and minors. Indonesia’s government temporarily blocked access to Grok on Saturday, followed by Malaysia on Sunday.

"The government sees nonconsensual sexual deepfakes as a serious violation of human rights, dignity and the safety of citizens in the digital space,” Indonesian Communication and Digital Affairs Minister Meutya Hafid said in a statement Saturday.

The ministry said the measure was intended to protect women, children and the broader community from fake pornographic content generated using AI.

Initial findings showed that Grok lacks effective safeguards to stop users from creating and distributing pornographic content based on real photos of Indonesian residents, Alexander Sabar, director-general of digital space supervision, said in a separate statement. He said that such practices risk violating privacy and image rights when photos are manipulated or shared without consent, causing psychological, social and reputational harm.

In Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission ordered a temporary restriction on Grok on Sunday, after what it said was “repeated misuse” of the tool to generate obscene, sexually explicit and nonconsensual manipulated images, including content involving women and minors.

The regulator said that notices issued this month to X Corp. and xAI demanding stronger safeguards drew responses that relied mainly on user reporting mechanisms.

“The restriction is imposed as a preventive and proportionate measure while legal and regulatory processes are ongoing,” it said, adding that access will remain blocked until effective safeguards are put in place.

Launched in 2023, Grok is free to use on X. Users can ask it questions on the social media platform and tag posts they’ve directly created or replies to posts from other users. Last summer, the company added an image generator feature, Grok Imagine, that included a so-called spicy mode that can generate adult content.

The Southeast Asian restrictions come amid mounting scrutiny of Grok elsewhere, including in the European Union, the United Kingdom, India and France.

On Monday, the U.K.'s media regulator said that it launched a formal investigation into whether Grok “complied with its duties to protect people in the U.K. from content that is illegal.”

The regulator, Ofcom, said that Grok-generated images of children being sexualized or people being undressed may amount to pornography or child sexual abuse material.

“The content created and shared using Grok in recent days has been deeply disturbing," Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said.

Edna Tarigan reported from Jakarta, Indonesia.

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