Ohtani and Dodgers rally to beat Padres 5-2 in season opener, first MLB game in South Korea

       Ohtani and Dodgers rally to beat Padres 5-2 in season             opener, first MLB game in South Korea

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers began their Shohei Ohtani period with a vital success on an evening of firsts.

Ohtani's RBI single covered a four-run eighth-inning rally in his Dodgers debut, and Los Angeles beat the San Diego Padres 5-2 in Wednesday night's opener, Significant Association Baseball's most memorable game in South Korea.

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"Simply a decent night generally for Shohei," Dodgers director Dave Roberts said. "The master plan it's huge in light of the fact that you have such a generational ability that is on your ballclub in a major market in Los Angeles. There's much more eyeballs on the Dodgers and on Significant Association Baseball."

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The game turned when a standard grounder went through the webbing of the glove of first baseman Jake Cronenworth as the winning run scored.

Ohtani went 2 for 5 with a RBI in his most memorable game since leaving the Los Angeles Heavenly messengers for a record $700 million, 10-year contract with the Dodgers. A horde of 15,952 was close by to watch at the Gocheok Sky Vault.

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The two-way star, restricted to batting following elbow a medical procedure, likewise had a psychological mistake that caused the last out of the eighth. He was called out when he passed a respectable halfway point and afterward neglected to correct the pack while withdrawing on Freddie Freeman's flyout, causing an inning-finishing twofold play.

A bomb danger didn't appear to influence pregame arrangements. Police found no explosives and said they followed up on a tip that the danger was against Ohtani.

Padres pitchers strolled nine and hit a player, and the Dodgers had seven hits, none for additional bases.

San Diego drove 2-1 entering the eighth when Max Muncy began with a stroll against Wandy Peralta. Teoscar Hernández, additionally making his Dodgers debut, singled off Jhony Brito (0-1), among the players the Padres acquired in the exchange that sent star Juan Soto to the New York Yankees.

James Outman strolled and Kiké Hernández's fielder's choice tied the score. Adrián Morejón eased and Gavin Lux hit a chopper to Cronenworth that the double cross Top pick attempted to strike. The ball went through the webbing of the huge first baseman's glove.

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"It might have gone through innings before that. It simply occurred at that particular situation and it sucks," Cronenworth said. "I thought it was a simple twofold play."

Hernández got back home for a 3-2 lead.

"That is an intense mistake for Cro," Roberts said. "Lucky break for us. You got to take them when you can get them."

Betts and Ohtani followed with RBI singles.

Betts, Ohtani and Freeman turned into the principal MVPs to hit 1-2-3 in a batting request since Philadelphia's Joe Morgan, Pete Rose and Mike Schmidt during 10 games in 1983. The main different occasions were by Cincinnati's Large Red Machine, with Rose, Morgan and George Encourage on May 13, 1978, and Rose, Morgan and Johnny Seat on May 5, 1976.

Betts, moved to shortstop this season, joined with Ohtani to go 4 for 9 at the highest point of the request.

Daniel Hudson (1-0), the third of five Dodgers pitchers, tossed a one-hit seventh. Evan Phillips pitched an ideal 10th for the save, completing a four-hitter that gave the Dodgers their 6th consecutive success over the Padres in an opener.

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With new spouse Mamiko Tanaka watching from the strands, Ohtani got his originally hit with the Dodgers in a 112.3 mph single to right against Yu Darvish. Ohtani was at the plate in the first when Mookie Betts attempted to take second yet was sent back due to umpire obstruction by Spear Barksdale on Luis Campusano behind the plate.

Xander Bogaerts put the Padres ahead in the third with a run-scoring single off Tyler Glasnow. Bogaerts turned into the third player with hits in five countries after Edgardo Alfonzo and Paul Goldschmidt, as per the Elias Sports Agency. Bogaerts additionally has hits in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Britain.

Jason Heyward had a fielder's choice in the fourth, and San Diego returned ahead in the base half when Campusano hit a run-scoring twofold play grounder.

Glasnow surrendered two runs, two hits and four strolls more than five innings, tossing 77 pitches. Los Angeles obtained him from Tampa Narrows in December and marked the 30-year-old right-hander to a $136.5 million, five-year contract.

"The entire day was somewhat of a toil," Glasnow said. "Boisterous — cool environment."

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Darvish permitted an unmerited run and two hits in 3 2/3 innings.

Muncy had the primary hit of season, coating a solitary off the finish of his bat in the second and into focus.

Beginning his twelfth season, Bogaerts made his most memorable major association appearance at second as Ha-Seong Kim moved to shortstop.

In the principal game since MLB abbreviated the pitch clock with sprinters on base by two seconds to 18, Padres pitchers were called for four infringement, including two by Peralta and one each by Darvish and Yuki Matsui.

Matsui, the fourth of eight San Diego pitchers, got two outs in the 6th inning of his Padres. He consented to a $28 million, five-year contract.

San Diego's Ha-Seong Kim, playing in his local nation, was 0 for 3 with a walk.

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