Shohei Ohtani appears to be the first of the trio to have broken out of his slump, going 2-for-5 with three runs, five RBIs, and one home run Sunday against the Washington Nationals.

Freeman still tends to his surgically-repaired ankle, which affected him throughout the 2024 playoffs, and r ecently sustained a quadriceps injury. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts kept him out of the lineup for Friday's 6-5 win versus the Washington Nationals (31-45),

Ohtani’s 18th and final pitch Sunday afternoon was a cutter that Washington Nationals first baseman Nathaniel Lowe flailed at, starting the chain with little time for Ohtani to celebrate a scoreless second outing off of elbow surgery or his first two strikeouts in a Los Angeles Dodgers uniform.