The Los Angeles Dodgers were shut out by the Chicago Cubs, 16-0, as they lost their first game at Dodger Stadium during the 2025 season. They entered the game on a seven-game home winning streak to begin the year.
It was the Dodgers largest shutout loss since Aug. 8, 1965 against the Cincinnati Reds when they lost 18-0 at Crosley Field. The Dodgers went on to win the World Series that season after finishing first in the National League with a 97-65 record.
Tonight’s game also became the largest shutout loss at Dodger Stadium in club history.
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The Dodgers offense could not get anything going against Cubs’ starter Ben Brown, who tossed six shutout innings while giving up five hits, no walks and striking out five. Their best chance to score against him came in the first inning when they put runners at the corners with two outs.
After that first inning, the Dodgers failed to get anyone into scoring position against Brown and picked up just three singles over the next five innings.
As for the Cubs offense, they had somewhat mixed results against Roki Sasaki, but it was enough for them to take the lead. The right-hander tossed five innings while giving up just one run on four hits, but he was only able to strikeout three hitters and walked two.
Sasaki also benefitted from some luck as he allowed nine hard-hit balls, compared to just four from Brown. In addition, Sasaki was bailed out by Andy Pages, who took away a potential grand slam from Michael Busch in the third inning.
The Cubs scored first on a home run from Busch in the second inning. They extended their lead in the sixth inning when Busch doubled and scored on a single from Justin Turner against Ben Casparius.
It turned into a tough night for Casparius as he fell apart in the seventh inning, allowing five more runs before exiting the game.
Carson Kelly started the inning with a homer, then a walk and single put two more runners on for Miguel Amaya, who singled home another run. Busch singled to drive in the Cubs’ fifth run and Dansby Swanson singled to make it a 6-0 game.
The Cubs scored their final run of the inning on a sacrifice fly from Nico Hoerner before Luis García replaced Casparius on the mound.
García got out of the inning, but went on to four more runs in the eighth inning, giving up a walk, double, single and home run to push the Cubs’ run total to 11. After he failed to record an out, Miguel Rojas was called upon to get the Dodgers out of the inning, which he did while only allowing a single.
Rojas also stayed in to pitch the ninth, allowing a five more runs on two singles, three doubles and a home run to further extend the Cubs’ lead. Rojas ended up throwing two innings while allowing five runs on seven hits.
Miguel Rojas imitates Dodgers pitchers
Perhaps the only highlight of the game was while Rojas was pitching and started to imitate some of the other Dodgers pitchers. Rojas pretended to pitch with the same motion as Landon Knack, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Clayton Kershaw and Roki Sasaki, along with mixing in his own general windup.
The pitchers in the dugout were laughing and having a good time while Rojas was copying their style, and at one point, Rojas looked over to them to laugh back.
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