Summary of the Dodgers 5-3 Phillies (Oct., 2025)

Philadelphia (AP) – Dominican Teoscar Hernández made any error forget, such as defensive lapses in the garden that led to a triple of two races, before the toleter of Los Angeles Dodgers faced a crucial moment of playoffs on the plate. He felt euphoric once he saw the ball fall into the seats.

Hernández resusciated the Dodgers with a three-run homer in the seventh entrance that saved the Japanese Shhehei Ohtani, on Saturday night both in the mound and on the plate, and took Los Angeles to a 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in game 1 of his division series of the National League.

“It was a great moment. It is definitely a prominent moment for us and for the team,” Ohtani said through a translator.

Ohtani needed a stimulus after struggling four times in a row, the last time in the seventh without outs and with two runners based against Matt Strahm.

It is not what to worry, at least for the reigning champions of the World Series.

After a high of Mookie Betts, Hernández silenced a noisy crowd of the Phillies with a hit against Strahm to take an advantage of 5-3. The veteran Toletero celebrated effusively while traveling the bases.

Hernández went to the dish with modest expectations with the game in the balance. “Maybe a hit. Try to bring a race to tie the game,” he said. “But he left her in the Strike area.”

Without a cap, Ohtani got up from his seat in the Dugout to join the celebration and exhale once he was aimed at victory.

Three times MVP, Ohtani recovered from a second input of three races in its first postseason opening as a pitcher to stop the Phillies and finish with nine strikeouts in six tickets.

Alex Vesia withdrew the Panamanian batter Edmundo Sosa with the bases full in the eighth to preserve the advantage. Roki Sasaki worked the ninth for his first rescue in his career.

Ohtani and Sasaki are the first opener and reliever born in Japan to obtain a victory and a rescue in the same postseason game.

Ohtani had admitted to being nervous for playing in front of a crowd that voraciously tried to honor his nickname “four hours of hell”-it was booed when he went out to the field during warming-and never found his rhythm on the plate. Ohtani received ball base in the novena.

The Dominican opener of the Phillies, Cristopher Sánchez, struck Ohtani three times, including a third called at the fifth entrance that led to the crowd that stirred towels to the delirium.

Ohtani’s 0-4 became a mere footnote-although Ohtani is the first player to struggle four times as a batter and struck nine batters as a pitcher in the same postseason game-in an exciting comeback for a team of the Dodgers on the rise after beating the Cincinnati Reds for a sweep of two games in their two-game series.

While the Phillies bullpen could not maintain the advantage, Vesia saved Tyler Glasnow in the eighth when he filled the bases before being relieved.

Trea Turner, National League batting champion, Kyle Schwarber, home run champion and races of the National, Bryce Harper and Alec Bohm combined for a 13-1 with a scored race and no promoted race.

“We jumped on them and we are silent for a while,” said Harper. “They took good swings and advanced, and we could not do anything more than that. I thought we failed on the dish.”

For the Dodgers, the Puerto Rican Enrique Hernández Bateo 4-1 with two produced and the Cuban Andy Pages of 4-1 with a scored.

Game 2 is Monday in Philadelphia.

“We have to leave it behind. These boys are quite good in that,” said the manager of the Phillies, Rob Thomson.