Shohei Ohtani wins NL pitcher of month for April
· Yahoo Sports
Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani has six player of the month honors in his career, but on Monday he won his first career pitcher of the month award, taking home top National League honors for his excellent mound work in March and April.
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Ohtani allowed only four total runs, two of them earned in his 30 innings of work, with 34 strikeouts and nine walks to go with his 0.60 ERA and 2.24 xERA in five starts. Among NL pitchers with at least 30 innings, Ohtani led the league in ERA, xERA, and FIP (1.98), and ranked sixth in strikeout rate (28.6 percent) and ninth in strikeout-minus-walk rate (21 percent).
In Dodgers history, Ohtani’s 0.60 ERA is third-best in the live-ball era through the end of April in at least five starts, trailing only Fernando Valenzuela in both 1981 (0.20 ERA) and 1985 (0.21 ERA).
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Ohtani has led the National League in ERA after each of his five starts, but only intermittently so as his innings total has at times lagged behind the total number of Dodgers games played. He’s completed exactly six innings in each of his starts thus far, and will need to do so again to qualify for the leaderboard on Tuesday, pitching in the Dodgers’ 36th game of the season, in Houston.
Ohtani has won player of the month six times in his career — June 2021, July 2021, June 2023, July 2023 with the Angels; then September 2024 and May 2025 with the Dodgers.
Tyler Glasnow was among the other National League pitchers receiving votes for the monthly honor, with his 2.56 ERA, 3.07 xERA and 23.6-percent strikeout-minus-walk rate with 47 strikeouts and 13 walks in 38 2/3 innings over six starts.
The Dodgers won two pitcher of the month awards last season, both by Yoshinobu Yamamoto, in March/April and in September.