Hernández’s 3-run homer and Sheehan’s 10 Ks power Dodgers past Reds 6-3 for 5th straight win

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Teoscar Hernández hit a three-run homer, Emmet Sheehan tied a career high with 10 strikeouts in his first major league outing since Aug. 2 and the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Cincinnati Reds 6-3 on Monday night.

Shohei Ohtani went 0 for 3 with two strikeouts and a walk in his return to the lineup after a four-day break to heal multiple lingering injuries.

The NL West leaders won their fifth in a row despite being outhit 7-3. For the second time in franchise history, the Dodgers won after scoring six or more runs on just three hits. They cooled off the Reds, who were coming off series wins over the Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres and NL Central-leading Milwaukee.

It was the first of seven games over the next 11 days between the teams.

Sheehan (5-8) allowed one run and three hits in 5 2/3 innings. He was recalled earlier in the day from Triple-A Oklahoma City, where he'd been sent due to his struggles on the mound.

Evan Phillips pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to earn his first save since May 2, 2025.

The Dodgers didn’t get their first hit until Hernández singled off reliever Brandon Williamson (3-4) leading off the fifth. Alex Call was hit by a pitch with two outs, and both runners scored on a throwing error by third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes.

Trailing 2-1, the Reds loaded the bases against Sheehan in the sixth after Carlos Jorge singled for his first major league hit. Alex Vesia entered and threw a called third strike past JJ Bleday to end the threat.

Sheehan hugged Vesia in the dugout.

Hernández homered off Williamson in the bottom half to make it 5-1.

The Reds’ first two runs came on homers to center field by De La Cruz in the first and Eugenio Suárez in the seventh.

De La Cruz has gone deep in three straight games. He has 24 homers this season, one short of equaling his own club record for switch-hitters set in 2024.

Cincinnati closed to 5-3 in the eighth on pinch-hitter Dane Myers’ RBI groundout against reliever Jack Dreyer.

Pinch-hitter Will Smith tacked on a sacrifice fly for Los Angeles in the bottom half.

Reds starter Chase Burns struck out five in three hitless innings before leaving as part of the team's workload-management plan that went into place Monday.

Reds LHP Nick Lodolo (3-3, 5.08 ERA) starts Tuesday against Dodgers LHP Tarik Skubal (8-7, 2.86).

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Cincinnati Reds' Elly de la Cruz head to second after hitting a solo home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Los Angeles Dodgers' Miguel Rojas, right, makes it to first as Cincinnati Reds first baseman Sal Stewart misses the ball on a throwing error that allowed two runs to score during the fifth inning of a baseball game Monday, Sept. 7, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Los Angeles Dodgers' Alex Freeland, left, and Max Muncy walk in as a rainbow is seen above them after the top of the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Emmet Sheehan throws to the plate during the first inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Los Angeles Dodgers' Teoscar Hernández has seeds thrown at him after hitting a three-run home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

ENSENADA, Mexico (AP) — Three men charged with murder in the 2024 killings of two Australian brothers and an American friend went on trial Monday in Mexico’s Baja California state, court officials said.

The three men are charged with murder and aggravated robbery in the killing of the three people who went missing while camping and surfing at a remote beach in Baja.

Jesús Gerardo García, known as “El Kekas,” and two others identified as Irineo Francisco N. and Ángel Jesús N. appeared in court in the coastal city of Ensenada over the deaths of Callum Ryan Robinson, 33, Jake Martin Robinson, 30 and Jack Carter Rhoad, 30. The surnames of the latter two defendants were withheld in according with Mexican criminal procedure.

Their bodies were found several days later, dumped in a cliff-top shaft with gunshot wounds to their heads.

Martin Robinson, the father of the Australian brothers, attended the hearing with his wife.

“I know they would want us to be here; they would do the same for us,” he told reporters before entering the courthouse.

Prosecutors say the men were killed during an attempt to steal their pickup truck, which was later found burned near their bodies.

García former partner, Silva Raya, was sentenced to 20 years in prison last year after admitting she instigated the robbery to steal the pickup’s tires.

The trial is due to continue Tuesday.

Martin Robinson, the father of Australian brothers Callum and Jake Robinson, leaves a courthouse in Ensenada, Mexico after the trial of men accused of murder in connection with the deaths of two Australians and a U.S. citizen, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Tashiro Malekium)