Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Copyrighted by Sarah Morris, 2025

The Los Angeles Dodgers advanced to the NLDS against the Philadelphia Phillies. The Dodgers are the only baseball team that swept the opposition in the Wild Card series.

On a beautiful Wednesday evening at Dodger Stadium, the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Cincinnati Reds 8-to-4. This game wasn’t a cakewalk. While a team that commits three errors usually doesn’t win, the Dodgers did.

As he was for the 2025 season, Yoshinobu Yamamoto was fantastic for 6.2 innings. He worked around a first-inning error by Teoscar Hernàndez even though he allowed two runs. He battled though he didn’t have his best stuff. In the sixth, he worked out of a bases-loaded jam without.

Unlike Tuesday, the Dodgers didn’t hit a home run. Mookie Betts had four hits. The Dodgers had timely hitting. Ben Rortvedt had two hits. Kiké Hernàndez had an important run-scoring double, and Teoscar Hernàndez had a two-run double. Shohei Ohtani had a crucial run-scoring single.

In the eighth, Emmet Sheehan struggled, but Alex Vesia ended the inning a day after he couldn’t throw a strike. Roki Sasaki closed out of the game.