Shohei Ohtani has five-RBI night as Dodgers score season-high 15 runs in drubbing of Angels

The Dodgers scored in almost every way imaginable on Saturday night.Walk.Hit batter.

Sacrifice fly.Error.

Even a Little League home run from Shohei Ohtani.If there was a run to push across, the Dodgers found a way to do it.In a 15-2 drubbing of the Angels in Anaheim, Calif., the Dodgers needed just 10 hits to mount their highest-scoring performance of the season.They’ve now won four-straight games, and have clinched this weekend’s Freeway Series against their cross-town rivals.Hits were hard to come by early on Saturday night, as the Dodgers faced one of the majors’ best pitchers so far this year in hard-throwing right-hander José Soriano.

For five innings, Soriano held the club to just one run (courtesy of a first-inning Will Smith sac fly) on only one hit (a single from Mookie Betts two at-bats into the game).But on a night Soriano lacked consistent command, the Dodgers found a way to adjust.In the sixth inning, the team scored five times –– on the back of only one base knock.Instead, they took one free base after another to help break the game wide open, loading the bases on two walks and a hit batter, then scoring three runs on two more walks and another hit-by-pitch once the bases were loaded.Not until Alex Call snuck a two-run single through the infield, making the score 6-0, did the team finally record its second hit of the game.The Dodgers’ bats finally started to break out from there, leading to a four-run onslaught in the eighth and a five-run pile-on in the ninth.Ohtani delivered the key moment in both frames. In the eighth, he recorded his first triple of the season on a ball down the right-field line that one-hopped off the protective netting in front of the stands (the Angels challenged the play, but live balls that hit the netting are considered to still be in play).The two-way star then turned it into a Little League home run by racing home as the Angels flubbed a relay play.

Mookie Betts hit the team’s only actual home run of the...