consecutive strikeouts for Ohtani the pitcher.

“Not to put any more pressure on him as a player, but when he goes out there, that’s what we expect of him, and I’m sure that’s what he expects of himself,” said Dalton Rushing, who has caught three of Ohtani’s five starts.

Ohtani relied on his four-seam fastball against the Giants, throwing it 23 times in his 36 total pitches. The average velocity was 97.8 mph, down slightly from his first six starts (98.4 mph) but he still hit 100 mph twice.

“Ideally I’d like to be able to attack the zone with either fastball or offspeed,” Ohtani said. “It just really depends on that day, how I feel. Today was one of those days where my fastball felt pretty good, so I leaned on it a little bit more.”

Following Ohtani in the fourth inning, Sheehan took time to find his footing, but once he found it, he strolled through the Giants’ lineup. He walked two of the first three batters he faced before retiring the next 12 in order, throwing just 40 pitches in his first four innings.

Patrick Bailey broke up the string with a one-out single in the eighth inning, the Giants’ second hit of the game. After a walk, Heliot Ramos singled to load the bases for Rafael Devers. Alex Vesia replaced Sheehan and got Devers to fly out, a run scoring on the play, then escaped the inning on a forceout.

Sheehan’s return from Tommy John surgery has gone as smoothly as anyone could have hoped. In three games for the Dodgers, he has allowed three runs on 10 hits over 13 1/3 innings — and mixed in six perfect innings in one outing at Triple-A.

“I think the past few weeks, it’s just been all kind of coming together a little bit,” Sheehan said. “Curveball definitely felt better today. Slider took a little bit of time to get down and get some execution on. But other than that, it’s all off that fastball.”

The pitching effort came with minimal support.

After breaking out for seven runs on Friday night, the Dodgers’ offense went back into sleep mode, scratching out single runs in the second and sixth innings.

Michael Conforto led off the second with an infield single. Andy Pages followed with a bouncer through the middle that Giants shortstop Willy Adames smothered with a sprawling stop. He tried to flip to second for a force out but flung the ball onto the infield grass instead, putting runners at the corners. Conforto scored on Tommy Edman’s ground out.

In the sixth, Conforto singled with two outs (one of his three hits in the game) and moved up on a walk of Pages. Hyeseong Kim dumped a single into left field, scoring Conforto. But Kim was out trying to stretch his hit into a double.