The Los Angeles Dodgers will keep away from an NLDS upset for a 3rd 12 months in a row.
With a good 2-0 win over the San Diego Padres in Sport 5 at residence on Friday, the Dodgers received their first playoff sequence of the present postseason format. They misplaced within the NLDS every of the final two seasons to wild card groups.
It’s the first postseason sequence victory of Shohei Ohtani’s MLB profession.
The Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto out-dueled the Padres’ Yu Darvish in a historic playoff matchup of Japanese-born starters, and the Los Angeles Dodgers received residence runs from Kiké Hernández and Teoscar Hernández to beat the San Diego Padres 2-0 on Friday and advance to the Nationwide League Championship Sequence.
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Enrique Hernández #8 of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrates with Mookie Betts #50, Shohei Ohtani #17 and Teoscar Hernández #37 after hitting a solo residence run within the second inning throughout Sport 5 of the Division Sequence offered by Reserving.com between the San Diego Padres and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium on Friday, October 11, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Daniel Shirey/MLB Pictures by way of Getty Photographs)
Yamamoto allowed two hits over 5 innings for the Dodgers earlier than being pulled after 63 pitches in a decisive Sport 5 between heated NL West rivals who had been assembly in a Division Sequence for the third time in 5 years.
Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers will play the wild-card New York Mets within the best-of-seven NLCS beginning Sunday night time in Los Angeles.
The Dodgers received a decisive Sport 5 at residence for the primary time since taking a 1981 NL Division Sequence towards Houston after a season cut up into halves following a gamers’ strike. Boasting the majors’ finest regular-season file of 98-64, they efficiently averted a 3rd straight NLDS elimination.
The Padres’ massive hitters went bust with their season on the road. Three-time batting champion Luis Arraez, Fernando Tatis Jr., Jurickson Profar and Manny Machado had been 1 for 14 in Sport 5 as Los Angeles pitchers retired their final 19 batters.
San Diego went scoreless for the ultimate 24 innings of the sequence, dropping the final two video games after taking a 2-1 lead again residence.
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Teoscar Hernández #37 of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrates after hitting a solo residence run towards the San Diego Padres in the course of the seventh inning of Sport 5 of the Division Sequence at Dodger Stadium on October 11, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Sean M. Haffey/Getty Photographs)
Yamamoto and Darvish had been the primary Japanese-born beginning pitchers to sq. off in main league playoff historical past. The 26-year-old Yamamoto was the fifth rookie to start out a winner-take-all sport in Dodgers historical past.
Darvish, the 38-year-old childhood idol of Ohtani, gave up an early residence run to Kiké Hernández, then set down 14 in a row. Teoscar Hernández’s homer chased Darvish within the seventh and made it 2-0.
The Padres and Dodgers mixed to retire 26 consecutive batters — the longest streak in a single sport in postseason historical past.
Darvish gave up two runs and three hits in 6 2/3 innings, struck out 4 and walked one.
Darvish and Ohtani teamed to assist win final 12 months’s World Baseball Traditional for Japan, however they had been rivals Friday. Ohtani struck out thrice, together with twice towards Darvish in a sport watched on Saturday morning in Japan.
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Alex Vesia #51 of the Los Angeles Dodgers reacts after hanging out Jackson Merrill (not pictured) of the San Diego Padres to finish the seventh inning of Sport 5 of the Division Sequence at Dodger Stadium on October 11, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Harry How/Getty Photographs)
The groups mixed to attain 43 runs within the first 5 video games of the sequence, however the winner-take-all finale was a tense pitching affair in entrance of a sellout crowd of 53,183 that included Los Angeles Lakers celebrity LeBron James and a Hollywood contingent of Brad Pitt, Rob Lowe, Bryan Cranston and Jimmy Kimmel.
The Dodgers are headed to the NLCS for the sixteenth time general and first since 2021 once they misplaced to Atlanta in six video games.
The Padres head into the offseason with loads of promise for subsequent 12 months. They challenged the Dodgers for the NL West title all the way down to the ultimate days of the common season.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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