HOUSTON (Interstat) — Andy Pages set career highs with three home runs and six RBIs and Shohei Ohtani broke out of a slump with two hits to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 12-2 rout of the Houston Astros on Wednesday afternoon at Daikin Park.

The Dodgers improved to 23-14, while the Astros fell to 15-23 before an announced crowd of 32,741. The game lasted 2 hours, 44 minutes.

Pages, the Dodgers’ center fielder, connected on a three-run homer in a five-run third inning that turned a one-run deficit into a 6-1 lead, then added a two-run shot in the fifth and a solo blast in the ninth for his eighth homer of the season. He finished 3 for 5.

Starter Tyler Glasnow allowed a solo home run in the first inning before leaving the game with low back pain before the second. Glasnow pitched one inning, giving up one hit and one earned run while striking out two.

Jack Dreyer took over and pitched two scoreless innings, allowing one hit and striking out one, to earn the win and improve to 2-3. Five other Dodgers relievers combined to hold the Astros to one run over the final six innings. Edgardo Henriquez tossed two scoreless innings with one strikeout, Brock Stewart struck out two in a perfect seventh, Kyle Hurt struck out two in a perfect eighth and Tanner Scott pitched a scoreless ninth.

Lance McCullers Jr. took the loss for Houston, falling to 2-3 after allowing six runs on three hits and three walks over 2 1/3 innings.

The Astros struck first in the bottom of the first when Brice Matthews hit a solo homer to left field, his fourth of the season, off Glasnow. Matthews finished 1 for 4 with the homer and a strikeout.

The Dodgers answered in the top of the second. Kyle Tucker led off with a double to right, but two strikeouts and a lineout left him stranded after Dalton Rushing singled him to third but Hyeseong Kim flied out to end the inning.

McCullers retired the first two batters in the top of the third before the Dodgers erupted. Alex Freeland walked and Ohtani doubled to right, putting runners at second and third. Freddie Freeman walked to load the bases. Teoscar Hernandez flied out, bringing up Kyle Tucker, who walked to force in Freeland and make it 1-1. Max Muncy struck out on a challenged call, but Pages followed with a three-run homer to left, scoring Freeman, Tucker and himself, giving the Dodgers a 4-1 lead. Rushing grounded out to end the inning.

The Dodgers added a run in the fourth. With two outs, Ohtani walked and Freeman doubled to left, scoring Ohtani for a 6-1 lead. Hernandez struck out to end the inning.

Houston’s best chance to climb back came in the bottom of the fourth when Isaac Paredes singled off Dreyer. But Christian Walker grounded into a double play, and Cam Smith struck out.

In the fifth, the Dodgers stretched the lead. With one out, Muncy singled and Pages hit his second homer of the game, a two-run shot to left, making it 8-1. Rushing singled, Kim singled and Freeland reached on a force out that scored Rushing. Ohtani singled to left, plating Kim and sending Freeland to third. Freeman walked to load the bases, but Hernandez struck out to end the inning with the Dodgers up 10-1.

The Dodgers tacked on another run in the seventh. Kim tripled to left off reliever Enyel De Los Santos and scored on a single by Freeland, making it 11-1. Ohtani grounded into a force out and Miguel Rojas grounded into a double play to end the inning.

Houston got one back in the bottom of the seventh off Stewart. Nick Allen grounded out, but Christian Walker singled. Cam Smith flied out, but Zach Cole singled sharply to right, scoring Walker to cut the lead to 11-2. Zach Dezenzo grounded out.

Pages completed his career day in the ninth, leading off with a solo homer to left off reliever Cesar Salazar, his third of the game and eighth of the season, to make it 12-2. Rushing popped out, Kim flied out and Freeland grounded out to end the inning.

Hurt pitched a perfect eighth with two strikeouts, and Scott set the Astros down in order in the ninth with a strikeout.

The Dodgers outhit the Astros 14-5. Ohtani went 2 for 4 with a double, a walk and an RBI, breaking a brief stretch in which he had gone 0 for 7 over the previous two games. Freeman had two hits, including a double, and two RBIs. Freeland had two hits and two RBIs.

For Houston, Matthews and Christian Walker each had two hits. Cole drove in Walker with a single. The Astros struck out 13 times.

The win gave Los Angeles a split of the two-game series in Houston, after the Astros won 2-1 on Tuesday. The Dodgers had won the series opener 8-3 on Monday.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Los Angeles Dodgers 5, Houston Astros 4, and Interstat’s ELO system had given the Dodgers a 64.40 percent probability to win. The Dodgers were installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of minus-1.5. The total score of 14 went under the over-under line of 8.5.