The Los Angeles Dodgers will keep away from an NLDS upset for a 3rd yr in a row.
With a good 2-0 win over the San Diego Padres in Recreation 5 at house on Friday, the Dodgers received their first playoff collection 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 collection 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 obtained house runs from Kiké Hernández and Teoscar Hernández to beat the San Diego Padres 2-0 on Friday and advance to the Nationwide League Championship Collection.
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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 house run within the second inning throughout Recreation 5 of the Division Collection introduced 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 Photographs through Getty Photographs)
Yamamoto allowed two hits over 5 innings for the Dodgers earlier than being pulled after 63 pitches in a decisive Recreation 5 between heated NL West rivals who have been assembly in a Division Collection 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 Recreation 5 at house for the primary time since taking a 1981 NL Division Collection towards Houston after a season break up into halves following a gamers’ strike. Boasting the majors’ finest regular-season file of 98-64, they efficiently prevented a 3rd straight NLDS elimination.
The Padres’ huge hitters went bust with their season on the road. Three-time batting champion Luis Arraez, Fernando Tatis Jr., Jurickson Profar and Manny Machado have been 1 for 14 in Recreation 5 as Los Angeles pitchers retired their final 19 batters.
San Diego went scoreless for the ultimate 24 innings of the collection, dropping the final two video games after taking a 2-1 lead again house.
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Teoscar Hernández #37 of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrates after hitting a solo house run towards the San Diego Padres throughout the seventh inning of Recreation 5 of the Division Collection at Dodger Stadium on October 11, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Sean M. Haffey/Getty Photographs)
Yamamoto and Darvish have 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 begin a winner-take-all sport in Dodgers historical past.
Darvish, the 38-year-old childhood idol of Ohtani, gave up an early house 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 yr’s World Baseball Traditional for Japan, however they have been rivals Friday. Ohtani struck out 3 times, 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 Recreation 5 of the Division Collection 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 collection, 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 total and first since 2021 after they misplaced to Atlanta in six video games.
The Padres head into the offseason with loads of promise for subsequent yr. 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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