"This season's team, coaches and players acknowledged repeatedly in recent weeks, had played their way into this spot: Having to begin the playoffs on the last day of September, in a daunting best-of-three wild-card series against the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday; facing the slimmest of margins in their pursuit of back-to-back World Series championships, having won the National League West but failed to secure a top-two playoff spot."
"In a 10-5 Game 1 defeat of the Reds at Dodger Stadium, it indeed was not. Shohei Ohtani led off with a home run. Blake Snell was superb in a seven-inning, two-run start. And in a rollocking two-batter sequence in the bottom of the third inning, the Dodgers broke the score wide open, with Teoscar Hernández hitting a three-run bomb moments before Tommy Edman went back-to-back with a solo shot."
The Dodgers opened the best-of-three wild-card series with a 10-5 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. Shohei Ohtani and Teoscar Hernández each hit two home runs as the team matched a franchise postseason record with five total homers. Blake Snell delivered seven dominant innings while allowing two runs. A two-batter surge in the third inning broke the game open, including a three-run homer and a back-to-back solo shot. The bullpen struggled in the eighth inning, issuing four walks and allowing three runs, but the Dodgers held the lead and secured the win.
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