LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pinch-hitter Miguel Rojas doubled in the go-ahead run in the sixth inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers hit four home runs while rallying past the Athletics 9-3 on Wednesday night.
Shohei Ohtani hit a 403-foot leadoff homer in the first and Andy Pages followed with a 417-foot shot on his first pitch in the second, giving the Dodgers a 2-0 lead.
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Los Angeles Dodgers' Freddie Freeman, left, Mookie Betts (50) and Max Muncy, right, celebrate after Muncy hit a three-run home run that scored Freeman and Betts in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Oakland Athletics, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne Kamin-Oncea)
Oakland Athletics' Shea Langeliers (23) celebrates in the dugout after scoring on a Miguel Andujar double in the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne Kamin-Oncea)
Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani (17) sprints home past Oakland Athletics' Miguel Andujar (22) as he and Enrique Hernández score on a double by Mookie Betts in the eighth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne Kamin-Oncea)
Los Angeles Dodgers' Hyeseong Kim (6) and Andy Pages (44) celebrate Kim's solo home run as manager Dave Roberts, bottom right, looks on in the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Oakland Athletics, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne Kamin-Oncea)
The Athletics tied it in the third on Tyler Soderstrom's two-run homer on the first pitch from Yoshinobu Yamamoto (5-3). They went ahead 3-2 in the fourth on Miguel Andujar's RBI double to left.
Yamamoto allowed three runs and four hits in six innings. He struck out six.
The Dodgers tied it on Hyeseong Kim's homer leading off the fifth, one of three homers given up by A's starter Gunnar Hoglund (1-1). He allowed four runs and seven hits in 5 1/3 innings and struck out five.
In the sixth, Pages drew a leadoff walk and was thrown out at third on Michael Conforto's single to left. Hogan Harris came in and gave up Rojas' double to center.
The Dodgers tacked on five runs in the eighth, highlighted by Max Muncy's three-run blast.
Mookie Betts was 0 for 7, including Monday’s opener, when the A’s intentionally walked Ohtani to get to him in the eighth. Pinch-hitter Kiké Hernández singled and was sacrificed to second. Betts doubled to center, extending the lead to 6-3.
The Dodgers had four homers a night after getting clobbered 11-1, when the A's hit a season-high five homers.
RH Osvaldo Bido (2-3, 4.75 ERA) starts the series finale Thursday, while the Dodgers go with a bullpen game.
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Los Angeles Dodgers' Freddie Freeman, left, Mookie Betts (50) and Max Muncy, right, celebrate after Muncy hit a three-run home run that scored Freeman and Betts in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Oakland Athletics, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne Kamin-Oncea)
Oakland Athletics' Shea Langeliers (23) celebrates in the dugout after scoring on a Miguel Andujar double in the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne Kamin-Oncea)
Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani (17) sprints home past Oakland Athletics' Miguel Andujar (22) as he and Enrique Hernández score on a double by Mookie Betts in the eighth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne Kamin-Oncea)
Los Angeles Dodgers' Hyeseong Kim (6) and Andy Pages (44) celebrate Kim's solo home run as manager Dave Roberts, bottom right, looks on in the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Oakland Athletics, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jayne Kamin-Oncea)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a second major drone and missile bombardment of Ukraine in four days, officials said Tuesday, aiming again at the power grid and apparently snubbing U.S.-led peace efforts as the war approaches the four-year mark.
Russia fired almost 300 drones, 18 ballistic missiles and seven cruise missiles at eight regions overnight, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media.
One strike in the northeastern Kharkiv region killed four people at a mail depot, and several hundred thousand households were without power in the Kyiv region, Zelenskyy said. The daytime temperature in the capital was -12 C (around 10 F). The streets were covered with ice, and the city rumbled with the noise from generators.
Four days earlier, Russia also sent hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in a large-scale overnight attack and, for only the second time in the war, it used a powerful new hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine in what appeared to be a clear warning to Kyiv’s NATO allies that it won’t back down.
On Monday, the United States accused Russia of a “ dangerous and inexplicable escalation ” of the fighting, when the Trump administration is trying to advance peace negotiations.
Tammy Bruce, the U.S. deputy ambassador to the United Nations, told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that Washington deplores “the staggering number of casualties” in the conflict and condemns Russia’s intensifying attacks on energy and other infrastructure.
Russia has sought to deny Ukrainian civilians heat and running water in the freezing winter months over the course of the war, hoping to wear down public resistance to Moscow’s full-scale invasion, which began on Feb. 24, 2022. Ukrainian officials describe the strategy as “weaponizing winter.”
In Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, the Russian attack also wounded 10 people, local authorities said.
In the southern city of Odesa, six people were wounded in the attack, said Oleh Kiper, the head of the regional military administration. The strikes damaged energy infrastructure, a hospital, a kindergarten, an educational facility and a number of residential buildings, he said.
Zelenskyy said that Ukraine is counting on quicker deliveries of agreed upon air defense systems from the U.S. and Europe, as well as new pledges of aid, to counter Russia’s latest onslaught.
Meanwhile, Russian air defenses shot down 11 Ukrainian drones overnight, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said Tuesday. Seven were reportedly destroyed over Russia’s Rostov region, where Gov. Yuri Slyusar confirmed an attack on the coastal city of Taganrog, about 40 kilometers (about 24 miles) east of the Ukrainian border, in Kyiv's latest long-range attack on Russian war-related facilities.
Ukraine’s military said domestically-produced drones hit a drone manufacturing facility in Taganrog. The Atlant Aero plant carries out design, manufacturing and testing of Molniya drones and components for Orion unmanned aerial vehicles, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Explosions and a fire were reported at the site, with damage to production buildings confirmed, the General Staff said.
It wasn't possible to independently verify the reports.
Katie Marie Davies contributed to this report from Manchester, England.
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In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kyiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
