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Giants Defeat Dodgers 6-2
San Francisco improved to 4-1 against the Dodgers this season as Eric Haase hit two home runs and Adrian Houser earned his first win with the Giants. Shohei Ohtani snapped a 13-game homerless streak with a solo shot but Los Angeles fell to 24-18. Manager Dave Roberts rested Ohtani for the next two games ahead of his scheduled pitching start.
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The San Francisco Giants defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-2 on May 12, 2026, in Los Angeles, handing the Dodgers their fourth-straight defeat. Eric Haase hit two home runs, including his second of the night in the fifth inning, and Harrison Bader added a home run in the fifth as the Giants improved to 18-24 on the season.
Adrian Houser pitched 5 2/3 innings, allowing two runs on three hits and three walks with four strikeouts to earn his first win as a member of the Giants.
The Giants are now 4-1 against the Dodgers in the 2026 season. Shohei Ohtani went 2-for-4 and hit a solo home run in the bottom of the third inning, his first in his last 13 games entering the contest and his second in 23 games. Ohtani also had a single in the first inning that led to the Dodgers' opening run.
The Dodgers are 24-18 after the loss. Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched 6 1/3 innings and allowed five runs, including a career-high three home runs. 18 over his most recent four starts.
He has allowed eight home runs this season. The Giants broke the game open in the seventh inning, scoring three runs. A run scored on a squeeze bunt that Freddie Freeman could not bare-hand, and Jung Hoo Lee hit a two-run double in the seventh.
The Dodgers have a 9-14 record since April 18, 2026. They failed to score more than three runs for the 10th time in their last 13 games as of May 12 and have lost four straight games by at least a four-run margin.
The last time the Dodgers lost four straight games by at least four runs was in 1936, according to Baseball Reference. " Roberts decided before the May 12 game that Shohei Ohtani would not play in the next two games. " Shohei Ohtani is scheduled to start pitching on Wednesday.
