Dodgers win off Cronenworth glove failure; 2 hits for Ohtani

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 game turned when a routine grounder went by means of the webbing of first baseman Jake Cronenworth.

Teoscar Hernandez scored the go-ahead run on an error that is likely to be construed as an gear malfunction. Gavin Lux’s grounder off Adrian Morejon went by means of Cronenworth’s glove, and the ball lastly settled in correct self-discipline as Hernandez scored from second base to supply Los Angeles a 3-2 lead.

“It might need gone by means of innings sooner than that. It merely occurred at that state of affairs, and it sucks,” Cronenworth said. “I suggest, I assumed it was a easy double play, I caught it on the first bounce.”

Watching from the dugout, Padres supervisor Mike Shildt was contemplating San Diego had gotten out of the inning.

“I felt pretty assured it was a 3-6-1,” he said. “Nonetheless it goes by means of his webbing and the rest is historic previous.”

Mookie Betts and Shohei Ohtani capped their two-hit performances with run-scoring singles inside the eighth inning.

“That may be a difficult error for Cro,” Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts said. “Fortunate break for us. To procure to take them when you’re going to get them.”

Ohtani went 2-for-5 in his first recreation since leaving the Los Angeles Angels for a file 10-year, $700 million contract with the Dodgers. A crowd of 15,952 was available to have a look at on the Gocheok Sky Dome for Primary League Baseball’s first recreation in South Korea.

“Solely an excellent night time time basic for Shohei,” Roberts said. “The bigger picture, it’s important since you’ve got acquired such a generational experience that is in your ballclub in an enormous market in Los Angeles. There’s rather more eyeballs on the Dodgers and on Primary League Baseball.”

Ohtani, the two-way star who’s restricted to batting after elbow surgical process, had a psychological error that prompted the final word 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 merely 4 singles in opposition to five Dodgers pitchers.

The Padres have been nursing a 2-1 lead sooner than Wandy Peralta walked Max Muncy to information off the eighth inning and reliever Jhony Brito (0-1) loaded the bases after Hernandez singled to center and James Outman walked on 4 pitches. Muncy scored on a sacrifice fly by Enrique Hernandez to complete Brito’s night time sooner than Cronenworth’s glove trouble modified the complexion of the game.

San Diego opened the scoring inside the third inning after Tyler Wade acquired right here home on Bogaerts’ single to center in opposition to a drawn-in infield.

Los Angeles answered inside the fourth. Hernandez superior to second base following a throwing error by third baseman Wade. Hernandez moved to third on a groundout and scampered home on Jason Heyward’s sacrifice fly to deep correct self-discipline.

Machado walked on 4 pitches to information 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 sooner 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.

“Your entire day was kind of a grind,” Glasnow said. “Loud — cool ambiance.”

Daniel Hudson (1-0) acquired the win after throwing a one-hit seventh. Evan Phillips pitched a great 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 added bases. Throughout the first recreation since MLB shortened the pitch clock with runners on base by two seconds to 18, Padres pitchers have been referred to as for 4 violations, along with two by Peralta and one each by Yu Darvish and Yuki Matsui.

Using the glove from his first primary league look, former Dodgers and Padres pitcher Chan Ho Park threw the ceremonial first pitch.

Sooner than the game, Park, who works as an adviser with San Diego, expressed pleasure about how his achievements and folks of his former Japanese teammate, Hideo Nomo, impressed youthful generations of Asian avid gamers to aim to realize the majors. Nomo joined the Dodgers in 1995.

“As soon as I take a look in any respect these Asian avid gamers within the current day, I actually 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 those bushes in the mean time are primary the majors and galvanizing new hope,” Park said.

Betts, Ohtani and Freeman turned the first MVPs to hit 1-2-3 in a batting order since Philadelphia’s Joe Morgan, Pete Rose and Mike Schmidt all through 10 video video games in 1993. The one completely different circumstances have been by Cincinnati’s Enormous Crimson Machine, with Rose, Morgan and George Foster on Would possibly 13, 1978, and Rose, Morgan and Johnny Bench on Would possibly 5, 1976.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto, one different massive Dodgers addition this offseason, makes his primary league debut Thursday after agreeing to a 12-year, $325 million contract. He had an 8.38 ERA over 9⅔ innings in three spring teaching outings.

“I’m not probably concerned regarding the numbers,” Yamamoto said by means of an interpreter.

Joe Musgrove begins for the Padres on Thursday after going 10-3 with a 3.05 ERA in 17 begins ultimate 12 months.

The Associated Press and Self-discipline Stage Media contributed to this report.