Shohei Ohtani homered twice and Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw took a shutout into the sixth inning and this time the Dodgers held on to avoid a series sweep, beating the host Baltimore Orioles 5-2 on Sunday afternoon.

Mookie Betts also homered and drove in another run with a ninth-inning single.

The Dodgers (79-64) ended a 1-5 road trip and remained atop the National League West.

The Orioles (66-77) had won with ninth-inning walk-off stunners in the first two games of the series, including using a four-run ninth inning Saturday.

Michael Conforto joined Ohtani and Betts with two hits for the Dodgers.

Emmanuel Rivera, who had Saturday night¡¯s game-winning single, notched two of Baltimore¡¯s eight hits. The Orioles¡¯ five-game winning streak ended, with their batters striking out 15 times.

Ohtani hit Tomoyuki Sugano¡¯s second pitch of the game for a home run in a matchup between Japanese players. His second blast ¡ª and his 48th of the season ¡ª came off Sugano to lead off the third.

Betts made it back-to-back long balls by following Ohtani¡¯s smash with his own in the third inning. Betts has 16 homers.

Kershaw (10-2) logged 5? innings and he was charged with both Baltimore runs in the sixth inning. Rivera¡¯s double off Kershaw provided the first run, and Alex Jackson doubled off reliever Edgardo Henriquez to make it 4-2.

Kershaw, facing the Orioles for the first time in his career, didn¡¯t allow a hit until Rivera¡¯s two-out single in the fourth. On Saturday night, Baltimore¡¯s first hit came with two outs in the ninth as the big comeback began.

Sugano (10-8) has lost three straight decisions. He surrendered four runs on seven hits in three-plus innings.

Dodgers reliever Justin Wrobleski gave up two singles in the seventh, but struck out Jeremiah Jackson and Ryan Mountcastle to get out of the threat. Wroblewski worked a less-eventful eighth inning and finished with five strikeouts in two innings.

Jack Dreyer pitched the ninth for his third save.