Los Angeles Dodgers vs San Diego Padres NLDS Game 5 Player Stats and Box Scores for October 11

The Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres played one last time in 2024 as they concluded the ALDS round on Friday. Both teams opened the regular season with a series in Seoul, South Korea, and have come a long way since.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Yu Darvish created history as the first Japanese-born starters in MLB history to pitch against each other in the postseason. Yamamoto started out well by getting a 1-2-3 inning in the first.

Yu Darvish looked strong as he started by striking out Shohei Ohtani. Mookie Betts grounded out, Freddie Freeman recorded a base hit, and Teoscar Hernandez was out by a pop-up. Both teams were scoreless in the first inning.

The Boys in Blue struck first as Kike Hernandez went deep to left field to give his team a 1-0 lead. Yamamoto had an impressive performance after pitching five scoreless innings. The Padres failed to score in the first six innings.

Darvish continued to pitching in the seventh inning but surrendered a second home run to Teoscar Hernandez. The Padres had a poor offensive game as they failed to score a single run.

Los Angeles Dodgers vs San Diego Padres Game Player Stats

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Padres	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	0	2	0
Dodgers	0	1	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	1	2	0

Los Angeles Dodgers' Player Stats

HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	AVG
S. Ohtani DH	3	0	0	0	.211
M. Betts RF	3	0	0	0	.222
F. Freeman 1B	2	0	1	0	.308
T. Hernandez LF	2	0	0	0	.294
M. Muncy 3B	1	0	0	0	.176
W. Smith C	2	0	0	0	.067
E. Hernandez CF	2	1	1	1	.375
G. Lux 2B	2	0	0	0	.294
T. Edman SS	2	0	0	0	.250

PITCHERS	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Y. Yamamoto	5.0	2	0	1	2	5.63
E. Phillips	1.0	0	0	0	1	0.00

San Diego Padres' Player Stats

HITTERS	AB	H	AVG
L. Arraez 1B	3	1	.233
F. Tatis RF	3	0	.440
J. Profar LF	2	0	.208
M. Machado 3B	2	0	.185
J. Merrill CF	2	0	.261
X. Bogaerts SS	1	0	.174
D. Peralta DH	2	0	.333
J. Cronenworth 2B	2	0	.143
K. Higashioka C	2	1	.263

PITCHERS	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Y. Darvish	6.0	2	1	1	4	1.38

Kike Hernandez and Teoscar Hernandez hit a home runs tonight

Hernandez smashed a great shot against Darvish, recording his 14th postseason home run. Teoscar Hernandez went deep to left field to give his team a 2-0 lead.

Dave Roberts' bullpen had a strong performance as they prevented the Padres from scoring. The bullpen did a fantastic job in continuing Yamamoto's success. The Padres gathered a couple of hits but it was not enough as their opponent was pretty dominant.

Darvish surrendered two runs, but it was not a bad outing. The issue with the Padres was their offense. None of the top hitters from San Diego was able to score, including Manny Machado and Fernando Tatis Jr.

As for Ohtani and his team, they will be facing the New York Mets in the NLCS round at Dodgers Stadium. Both teams are yet to announce their starting pitchers for Game 1, which will take place on Sunday at 8:15 PM EDT.