Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani starts playoffs with leadoff homer
Shohei Ohtani set the tone early in Game 1 for the Dodgers.
The two-way superstar put Los Angeles on the board quickly against the Reds in the first game of their best-of-three wild-card series with a solo homer.
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Then, the Dodgers really started to tee off on Cincinnati ace Hunter Greene.
After the Reds went down in order in the top half of the first, Ohtani stepped in against the hard-throwing Greene and got the count in his favor, 2-1.
The slugger turned on an inside fastball that came in at 100. 4 mph and sent it 375 feet to right — at an eye-popping 117.7 mph.
It mirrored Ohtani’s first-ever playoff game in 2024, when he homered against the rival Padres in the NLDS Game 1 at Dodger Stadium.
While Greene, an All-Star last year, got through the rest of the first and subsequent two innings unscathed, he couldn’t escape more damage in the fourth when things fully unraveled.
After walks to Freddie Freeman and Max Muncy, outfielder Teoscar Hernandez smacked a three-run homer to left. One batter later, switch-hitter Tommy Edman, batting from the left side, crushed a homer to right.
Greene finished the third inning but was removed before the start of the fourth for reliever Scott Barlow.
The Cincy right-handed starter had been on a roll going into the postseason, allowing just two runs over his last two starts (15 innings).
The potent Dodgers — a team Greene lost to at the end of August when he allowed five runs (three earned) — proved to be too much.
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