LOS ANGELES — Fernando Tatis Jr. hit two house runs because the San Diego Padres went deep six instances and evened the Nationwide League Division Collection with a 10-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Sport 2 on Sunday.
Tatis hit house runs within the first and ninth innings, whereas former Dodger David Peralta hit one within the second. Jackson Merrill and Xander Bogaerts hit back-to-back blasts within the eighth, whereas Kyle Higashioka additionally hit one within the ninth.
Proper-hander Yu Darvish (1-0) gave up one run on three hits to go together with two walks and three strikeouts over seven innings for the Padres, who head house for Sport 3 on Tuesday.
Shohei Ohtani went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts for the Dodgers, who had 5 hits and misplaced for the seventh time in eight playoff video games over the previous three seasons, a rut that features an NLDS defeat to the Padres in 2022. The highest three spots in Los Angeles’ order mixed to go 0-for-12 on Sunday.
Dodgers right-hander Jack Flaherty (0-1) gave up 4 runs on 5 hits over 5 1/3 innings. He struck out two and walked one.
Tatis gave San Diego a 1-0 lead within the first inning with a house run to left area. The Padres made it 3-0 within the second on Peralta’s first profession playoff house run, a two-run shot.
Padres left fielder Jurickson Profar robbed Mookie Betts of a house run within the first inning, reaching into the gang within the left area nook to make the catch. The Dodgers loaded the bases within the second inning with no one out however scored simply as soon as on a sacrifice fly from Gavin Lux.
The San Diego protection was at it once more within the fourth. Tatis made a leaping catch whereas on the run in right-center on a liner from Freddie Freeman, and Luis Arraez corralled Max Muncy’s hard-hit one-hopper for an inning-ending groundout.
Freeman departed after 5 innings with proper ankle discomfort.
After tempers flared on each side within the sixth inning when Flaherty hit Tatis with a pitch, the Padres took a 4-1 lead on an RBI single from Merrill.
A number of baseballs have been thrown on the sector earlier than the underside of the seventh, inflicting a delay and stoking the ire of Profar. Merrill and Bogaerts then sealed the win, hitting consecutive homers within the eighth for a 7-1 lead.
Higashioka hit his third homer of the postseason within the ninth, and Tatis hit his second of the sport two batters later.
Muncy hit a house run for the Dodgers within the ninth.
–By Doug Padilla, Area Degree Media