LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers are returning to the National League Championship Series for the first time since 2021, taking Game 5 from the San Diego Padres, 2-0. Yoshinobu Yamamoto rebounded from his shaky postseason debut to have a stellar start, and the Dodgers’ bullpen was nearly perfect again.
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The Padres didn’t score a run in the final 24 innings of the NLDS, which isn’t typically the secret sauce for winning a World Series.
Both Dodgers runs scored on solo home runs off Yu Darvish, who was otherwise brilliant. Hernándezes Kiké and Teoscar each hit long, long shots off him, with Kiké’s coming on a first-pitch fastball in the
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