Los Angeles. Yoshinobu Yamamoto beat Yu Darvish in a historic playoff duel between Japanese starters and the Los Angeles Dodgers relied on home runs from Kiké Hernández and Teoscar Hernández to beat the San Diego Padres 2-0 on Friday, thus settling in in the National League Championship Series.
Yamamoto allowed two hits in five innings for the Dodgers before being retired. He threw 63 pitches in a decisive fifth game between bitter rivals in the NL West who met in a division series for the third time in five years.
The Dodgers will play Pete Alonso and the New York Mets in the best-of-seven National League Championship Series beginning Sunday night in Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles club won a decisive fifth game at home for the first time since taking the 1981 National League division series against Houston, after a season interrupted by a long players’ strike. With a 98-64 record, the best regular season record in the majors, the Dodgers successfully avoided what would have been a third consecutive elimination in the division series.
The Padres’ big hitters were wrecked in the do-or-die encounter. Venezuelan Luis Arráez, three-time batting champion, as well as Dominican Fernando Tatis Jr., his compatriot Manny Machado and Jurickson Profar, went 1 for 14 combined in the fifth game. San Diego’s final 19 batters were retired.
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