Two sleeves Match 1 of the series of the National League division Saturday evening, the Riders had been struck in the mouth.
The phillies had scored three points Shohei Ohtani at the bottom of the second. Citizens Bank Park was trembling on the scale of a small earthquake. And the offensive of the dodgers did nothing against the left -handed of the phillies, Cristopher Sánchez.
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In the opening competition of a series of heavy goods vehicles, the reigning champions were down.
But, in their typically resilient way, far from the outside.
In an appointment of appointments, 5-3 victoryThe Dodgers still did what won them a championship last October.
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They raised the shoulders of early adversity, Ohtani conceding any other damage on a six -round start, ending his debut in the playoffs with nine stick withdrawals and four goalless monumental sleeves.
Their programming has dismissed the deficit, eliminating Sánchez de Phillies Ace and Cy Young Ace, Sánchez of the match on two and two points by Kiké Hernández in sixth.
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Then, they won the Knock -Out, with Teoscar Hernández by turning the game – and the feeling of this series of five best – with a two -sleeved home run, three sleeves, stadium -siles in seventh.
Match 2 will be back here in South Philadelphia on Monday evening. And the dodgers will enter it with it, given the way on Saturday started, an unexpected lead in the 1-0 series.
It could not have started worse for dodgers.
Sánchez sculpted them with nasty leads and fall changes. Ohtani, meanwhile, encountered early problems at the end of the second.
The Channel started with a walk to Alec Bohm, when Ohtani missed a quick account. This was followed by a single by Brandon Marsh, which obtained a quick ball at the bottom in an account of 2 and 2 and fired a base in the center.
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While Ohtani was trying to settle down, a choir of racile songs – Sho-Hei! Sho-Hei! – came to rain.
A crowd of 45,777 was ready to explode.
Then JT Realmuto gave them the chance.
The star of the Dodgers Shohei Ohtani delivers during the third round against the Phillies on Saturday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
After missing with a cursor on the first land in Realmuto, Ohtani left a radiator of 100.2 mi / h in the dead heart of the area. The location has made speed out of purpose. Realmuto went bankrupt, sent a training line by screaming in the right center, then collapsed until the third after the ball exceeded Teuscar Hernández in the gap.
A fly ball two strikers later – which worked for a sacrificed fly thanks to the inability of Hernández to cut the ball – was 3-0.
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In the moment (and with the way Sánchez was close to), the head was almost insurmountable.
The Dodgers, however, have not withered.
The turnaround started with Ohtani, who followed the triple of Realmuto by retiring the following 10 he faced. His only other problem occurred in the fifth, when the two lower strikers of the Phillies order reached the base with a withdrawal. But even then, Ohtani completed, bringing Trea Turner out and Kyle Schwarber swallows through a curve ball that ended the Channel.
Finally, the Dodgers offensive also found life.
With two withdrawals in the sixth, and Sánchez having abandoned only two strokes all night, Freddie Freeman triggered a rally with a march of five pass. Tommy Edman took a lead in the other direction to put two on board.
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This spoke of Kiké Hernández, who had already started to win his role as hero of October with four strokes in the joker series of the Cincinnati Reds team.
At the time, Hernández went back to the clutch, jumping on a Sánchez cursor who caught a little too much plates and rope it on the left line for a double of two points – this last race to come when Edman ran through a third goal stop panel.
Just like that, Sánchez was eliminated from the game. What had been a noisy crowd earlier in the night suddenly held.
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This formidable only growed in the next round, when Ohtani ended his start with a 1-2-3 at the bottom of the sixth.
Then, in the seventh, the dodgers made the return full – obtaining the largest swing of the night of another Savior of after -season, Teoscar Hernández.
Teoscar Hernández famous after hitting a three -point home run during the seventh round for the dodgers against the phillies on Saturday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
After Andy Pages led the Channel with a single and Will Smith (which entered the fifth round match for its first appearance of this qualifying series after missing the Wild Card Round with a fractured hand) was struck by a field of David Robertson, the phillies summoned the upper left -wicker Matt Straym to face Ohtani.
As he did during his three earlier, Ohtani struck, taking a quick bullet in the middle, hitting in the hins with a consecutive four in a match for the second time in his MLB career.
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But by obtaining Strahm on the mound, the Dodgers had favorable right -wing clashes behind him. Mookie Betts could not take advantage of it, jumping in the third for the second round. Hernández, on the other hand, did not miss.
On a quick ball high in a 1 and 0 account, Hernández launched an imposing fly ball away from the center right. The Outfield Phillies returned to it. But the ball continued to transport in the stands. The ball stadium has become silent. Hernández slipped practically around the bases.
The drama did not end there.
The planned starter of match 4, Tyler Glasnow, got into the seventh, when he withdrew the side on a double game group, then returned for the eighth, when he loaded the bases on one and two walks. This threat was extinguished by left-hander Alex Vesia, who prompted a harmless fly ball from Pinch-Hitter Edmundo Sosa to calm a moving crowd again.
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The ninth round then belonged to Roki Sasaki, the 23 -year -old converted beginner, who rose according to closing tasks less than two weeks after his return from a one -month shoulder injury. He worked around a double exit against Max Kepler to recover his first career stop.
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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
