Dodgers Force Game 5 with Padres, Advance to NLCS
The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres 2-0 on Friday night, taking the game over after Kiké Hernández and Teoscar Hernández homered, and forced a Game 5 of their National League Division Series with Yu Darvish on the mound for San Diego on Saturday, beating Yoshinobu Yamamoto in a historic playoff start of Japanese-born starters.
Dodgers’ starter Hiroki Yamamoto allowed two hits over five innings before being removed after 63 pitches in a must-win Game 5 with heated rivals meeting for a third time in five years in an NL Division Series.
The Dodgers will play Pete Alonso and the New York Mets in the best-of-seven NLCS, which starts Sunday night in Los Angeles.
Dodgers Clinch NLDS Win, Padres’ Season Ends
It ended the Dodgers’ wait for a decisive Game 5 win at home since a 1981 NL Division Series against Houston that ended when the teams split a season disrupted by a players’ strike.
That included avoiding a third straight NLDS elimination with the majors’ best regular-season record of 98-64 and among the best marks in franchise history, including the last two decades.
The Padres’ big guys came up empty with the season on the line. The last 19 San Diego batters were retired in Game 5, 1 for 14, as Luis Arraez, Fernando Tatis Jr., Jurickson Profar, and Manny Machado combined to bat for the third time at the plate.
San Diego became scoreless for the final 24 innings of the series, losing the finale and the two games there after taking a 2-1 lead away.
It was the first time in MLB playoff history that a pair of Japanese-born starting pitchers faced each other. The 26-year-old Yamamoto was the fifth rookie to start a winner-take-all game for the Dodgers.
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