Cleveland at Los Angeles

Cleveland needs to salvage a game from this series and it gets a chance against Shohei Ohtani, who has been feast or famine on the mound this season. Ohtani did pitch six shutout innings against Houston last Wednesday, but got pummeled for six runs on six hits in 3 2/3 innings against Texas six days before. Current Guardians hitters have 13 at-bats versus Ohtani and are batting .333 against him. Zach Plesac has allowed only three earned runs in 17 2/3 innings this season and the Guardians have won nine of 13 in the third game of a series dating to last season. Cleveland is 36-15 the past 51 meetings and 10-4 the past 14 on the road. Take the Guardians.