Shohei Ohtani and Freddie Freeman homered and the Los Angeles Dodgers roughed up Sandy Alcántara again for a 7-4 win over the host Miami Marlins on Monday night.

Mookie Betts and Teoscar Hernández each had two hits for the Dodgers, who have won eight of nine. Hernández left in the fourth because of tightness in his left hamstring.

Alcántara (2-4) gave up five runs and six hits in five innings six days after the 2022 NL Cy Young Award winner was tagged for seven runs and seven hits in 2 2/3 innings against the defending World Series champions.

The Dodgers struck quickly against Alcántara on Hernández’s RBI double in the first.

Freeman made it 3-0 with a two-run drive in the third. The 402-foot blast over the wall in center was Freeman’s 41st career homer against Miami, tying him for first by a Marlins opponent with Ryan Howard and Ryan Zimmerman.

Ohtani padded the lead with his two-run blast over the wall in right-center that had an exit velocity of 117.9 mph.

Ben Casparius (4-0) relieved Dodgers opener Jack Dreyer with one out in the second and scattered one run over four innings for the win.

Braves 4, Reds 0: AJ Smith-Shawver took a no-hitter into the eighth inning and Atlanta beat visitiong Cincinnati.

Santiago Espinal led off the eighth with a clean single to center field for the Reds’ lone hit. He was later erased on an inning-ending double play.

Smith-Shawver (2-2) was trying for the first no-hitter in the majors this season. The rookie right-hander struck out five and walked four in eight splendid innings, throwing 60 of his 99 pitches for strikes.

Matt Olson drove in two runs with an inside-the-park homer in the third. Reds rookie left fielder Tyler Callihan broke his left forearm on the play when he crashed hard into the padded wall in foul territory trying to make a sliding catch of Olson’s flyball.

Brewers 5, Astros 1: Christian Yelich hit a two-run homer, Tobias Myers pitched 5 1/3 strong innings and Milwaukee won at home over Houston.

Myers (1-0) carried a shutout into the sixth inning and ended up allowing six hits, no walks and one run.

Astros’ Alvarez on IL: Houston Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez has been placed on the 10-day injured list with inflammation in his right hand.

The issue caused the three-time All-Star to miss the last two games of the Astros’ weekend series with the Chicago White Sox.

Alvarez, 27, has batted .210 with a .306 on-base percentage, three homers and 18 RBIs in 29 games this season. That follows a 2024 season in which he batted. 308 with a .392 on-base percentage, 35 homers and 86 RBIs in 147 games while earning a third straight All-Star Game selection and finishing ninth in the AL Most Valuable Player voting.

He has posted an OPS of at least .959 each of the past three seasons.

Cubs’ Imanaga out: The Chicago Cubs placed left-handed starter Shota Imanaga on the 15-day injured list with a left hamstring strain, a day after he got hurt when going to cover first base.

The 31-year-old is 18-5 with a 2.89 ERA since signing a four-year, $53 million contract with the Cubs in January 2024. He finished fourth in the NL Rookie of the Year voting last season. This season, he is 3-2 with a 2.82 ERA in eight starts.