Shohei Ohtani wins first career MLB playoff series as Dodgers beat Padres in historic game

The Los Angeles Dodgers volition debar an NLDS upset for a 3rd twelvemonth successful a row.

With a choky 2-0 win implicit the San Diego Padres successful Game 5 astatine location connected Friday, the Dodgers won their archetypal playoff bid of the existent postseason format. They mislaid successful the NLDS each of the past 2 seasons to chaotic paper teams.

It is the archetypal postseason bid triumph of Shohei Ohtani's MLB career.

The Dodgers' Yoshinobu Yamamoto out-dueled the Padres' Yu Darvish successful a historical playoff matchup of Japanese-born starters, and the Los Angeles Dodgers got location runs from Kiké Hernández and Teoscar Hernández to bushed the San Diego Padres 2-0 connected Friday and beforehand to the National League Championship Series.

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Enrique Hernández #8 of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrates with Mookie Betts #50, Shohei Ohtani #17 and Teoscar Hernández #37 aft hitting a solo location tally successful the 2nd inning during Game 5 of the Division Series presented by Booking.com betwixt the San Diego Padres and the Los Angeles Dodgers astatine Dodger Stadium connected Friday, October 11, 2024 successful Los Angeles, California.  (Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

Yamamoto allowed 2 hits implicit 5 innings for the Dodgers earlier being pulled aft 63 pitches successful a decisive Game 5 betwixt heated NL West rivals who were gathering successful a Division Series for the 3rd clip successful 5 years.

Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers volition play the wild-card New York Mets successful the best-of-seven NLCS starting Sunday nighttime successful Los Angeles.

The Dodgers won a decisive Game 5 astatine location for the archetypal clip since taking a 1981 NL Division Series against Houston aft a play divided into halves pursuing a players’ strike. Boasting the majors’ champion regular-season grounds of 98-64, they successfully avoided a 3rd consecutive NLDS elimination.

The Padres’ large hitters went bust with their play connected the line. Three-time batting champion Luis Arraez, Fernando Tatis Jr., Jurickson Profar and Manny Machado were 1 for 14 successful Game 5 arsenic Los Angeles pitchers retired their past 19 batters.

San Diego went scoreless for the last 24 innings of the series, dropping the past 2 games aft taking a 2-1 pb backmost home.

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Teoscar Hernández #37 of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrates aft hitting a solo location tally against the San Diego Padres during the seventh inning of Game Five of the Division Series astatine Dodger Stadium connected October 11, 2024 successful Los Angeles, California.   (Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)

Yamamoto and Darvish were the archetypal Japanese-born starting pitchers to quadrate disconnected successful large league playoff history. The 26-year-old Yamamoto was the 5th rookie to commencement a winner-take-all crippled successful Dodgers history.

Darvish, the 38-year-old puerility idol of Ohtani, gave up an aboriginal location tally to Kiké Hernández, past acceptable down 14 successful a row. Teoscar Hernández’s homer chased Darvish successful the seventh and made it 2-0.

The Padres and Dodgers combined to discontinue 26 consecutive batters — the longest streak successful a azygous crippled successful postseason history.

Darvish gave up 2 runs and 3 hits successful 6 2/3 innings, struck retired 4 and walked one.

Darvish and Ohtani teamed to assistance triumph past year’s World Baseball Classic for Japan, but they were rivals Friday. Ohtani struck retired 3 times, including doubly against Darvish successful a crippled watched connected Saturday greeting successful Japan.

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Alex Vesia #51 of the Los Angeles Dodgers reacts aft striking retired Jackson Merrill (not pictured) of the San Diego Padres to extremity the seventh inning of Game Five of the Division Series astatine Dodger Stadium connected October 11, 2024 successful Los Angeles, California.   (Harry How/Getty Images)

The teams combined to people 43 runs successful the archetypal 5 games of the series, but the winner-take-all finale was a tense pitching matter successful beforehand of a sellout assemblage of 53,183 that included Los Angeles Lakers superstar 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 16th clip wide and archetypal since 2021 erstwhile they mislaid to Atlanta successful six games.

The Padres caput into the offseason with plentifulness of committedness for adjacent year. They challenged the Dodgers for the NL West rubric down to the last days of the regular season.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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