Shohei Ohtani’s RBI single capped a four-run eighth-inning rally in his Dodgers debut as Los Angeles beat the San Diego Padres 5-2 in Wednesday’s season opener in Seoul, South Korea, as the sport turned when a routine grounder went by the webbing of first baseman Jake Cronenworth.
Teoscar Hernandez scored the go-ahead run on an error that may very well be construed as an gear malfunction. Gavin Lux’s grounder off Adrian Morejon went by Cronenworth’s glove, and the ball ultimately settled in proper discipline as Hernandez scored from second base to provide Los Angeles a 3-2 lead.
“It may have gone by innings earlier than that. It simply occurred at that state of affairs, and it sucks,” Cronenworth mentioned. “I imply, I assumed it was a simple double play, I caught it on the primary bounce.”
Watching from the dugout, Padres supervisor Mike Shildt was considering San Diego had gotten out of the inning.
“I felt fairly assured it was a 3-6-1,” he mentioned. “However it goes by his webbing and the remainder is historical past.”
Mookie Betts and Shohei Ohtani capped their two-hit performances with run-scoring singles within the eighth inning.
“That is a troublesome error for Cro,” Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts mentioned. “Lucky break for us. You bought to take them when you will get them.”
Ohtani went 2-for-5 in his first sport since leaving the Los Angeles Angels for a report 10-year, $700 million contract with the Dodgers. A crowd of 15,952 was available to look at on the Gocheok Sky Dome for Main League Baseball’s first sport in South Korea.
The 2-way star, restricted to batting after elbow surgical procedure, had a psychological error that induced the ultimate out of the eighth inning. He was referred to as out when he handed second base after which didn’t retouch the bag whereas retreating on Freddie Freeman’s flyout, inflicting an inning-ending double play.
Xander Bogaerts had an RBI single amongst his two hits for the Padres, who mustered simply 4 singles towards 5 Dodgers pitchers.
The Padres had been nursing a 2-1 lead earlier than Wandy Peralta walked Max Muncy to guide off the eighth inning and reliever Jhony Brito (0-1) loaded the bases after Hernandez singled to middle and James Outman walked on 4 pitches. Muncy scored on a sacrifice fly by Enrique Hernandez to finish Brito’s night earlier than Cronenworth’s glove bother modified the complexion of the sport.
San Diego opened the scoring within the third inning after Tyler Wade got here house on Bogaerts’ single to middle towards a drawn-in infield.
Los Angeles answered within the fourth. Hernandez superior to second base following a throwing error by third baseman Wade. Hernandez moved to 3rd on a groundout and scampered house on Jason Heyward’s sacrifice fly to deep proper discipline.
Machado walked on 4 pitches to guide off the fourth inning and superior to second after Tyler Glasnow walked Ha-Seong Kim. A well-placed bunt by Jurickson Profar loaded the bases earlier than Machado scored on a 6-4-3 double play off the bat of Luis Campusano.
Glasnow allowed two runs on two hits with 4 walks and three strikeouts in 5 innings. The Dodgers acquired Glasnow in a Dec. 16 commerce with the Tampa Bay Rays and signed him to a five-year, $136.5 million contract extension.
“The entire day was type of a grind,” Glasnow mentioned. “Loud — cool environment.”
Daniel Hudson (1-0) received the win after throwing a one-hit seventh. Evan Phillips pitched an ideal ninth for the save, ending a four-hitter that gave the Dodgers their sixth straight win over the Padres in an opener.
Padres pitchers walked 9 and hit a batter, and the Dodgers had seven hits, none for additional bases. Within the first sport since MLB shortened the pitch clock with runners on base by two seconds to 18, Padres pitchers had been referred to as for 4 violations, together with two by Peralta and one every by Yu Darvish and Yuki Matsui.
Utilizing the glove from his first main league look, former Dodgers and Padres pitcher Chan Ho Park threw the ceremonial first pitch.
Earlier than the sport, Park, who works as an adviser with San Diego, expressed pleasure about how his achievements and people of his former Japanese teammate, Hideo Nomo, impressed youthful generations of Asian gamers to attempt to attain the majors. Nomo joined the Dodgers in 1995.
“Once I have a look at all these Asian gamers in the present day, I really feel that the tree planted by Hideo Nomo has grown sturdy and the tree planted by Chan Ho Park has grown sturdy, and that the fruits of these bushes at the moment are main the majors and provoking new hope,” Park mentioned.
Betts, Ohtani and Freeman turned the primary MVPs to hit 1-2-3 in a batting order since Philadelphia’s Joe Morgan, Pete Rose and Mike Schmidt throughout 10 video games in 1993. The one different situations had been by Cincinnati’s Large Pink Machine, with Rose, Morgan and George Foster on Could 13, 1978, and Rose, Morgan and Johnny Bench on Could 5, 1976.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, one other huge Dodgers addition this offseason, makes his main league debut Thursday after agreeing to a 12-year, $325 million contract. He had an 8.38 ERA over 9â…” innings in three spring coaching outings.
“I am not likely involved in regards to the numbers,” Yamamoto mentioned by an interpreter.
Joe Musgrove begins for the Padres on Thursday after going 10-3 with a 3.05 ERA in 17 begins final 12 months.
The Related Press and Area Degree Media contributed to this report.