Baseball: Ohtani extends on-base streak to 49 games in win over Rockies

Shohei Ohtani extended his remarkable on-base streak to 49 games as the Los Angeles Dodgers overpowered the Colorado Rockies 7-1 in Friday's series opener in Denver.The two-way superstar contributed to a rough night for Samurai Japan teammate Tomoyuki Sugano, who was charged with the loss at a wintery Coors Field, which had been covered in snow hours earlier.Ohtani led off the game with a hard-hit double down the right field line before coming home on Will Smith's sacrifice fly to open the scoring.The four-time MVP extended his record for the longest on-base streak by a Japanese-born major …READ FULL ARTICLE