Teoscar Hernandez HR fuels rally as Dodgers outlast Phillies - ESPN

PHILADELPHIA — With one seventh-inning swing of the bat from Teoscar Hernandez and two starting pitchers used in relief, the narrative of the anticipated showdown between the Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers took a twist as the road team rallied from a 3-0 deficit to take a 5-3 win in Game 1 of the NLDS Saturday night.

The Phillies, having constructed their best bullpen during their current four-year run of trips to the postseason, instead suffered a familiar fate: A reliever blowing a lead late in a playoff game.

The Dodgers, having suffered from bullpen problems all season, instead saw their pen hold on to the lead — albeit with a few nerves frayed in the process.

Hernandez's two-out, three-run home run in the seventh off Matt Strahm was his third of the postseason, and capped the comeback, giving the victory to Shohei Ohtani, who struck out nine batters in six innings in his first career postseason start as a pitcher.

Tyler Glasnow, the projected Game 4 starter, then recorded five outs in relief while Roki Sasaki, who returned late in the season from an injury to make two relief appearances and then one more against the Reds in the wild-card series, got the final three outs for his first professional save. Between those appearances, Alex Vesia — part of the much-maligned regular Dodgers relief corps — notched the biggest out of the game, inducing Edmundo Sosa to fly out to center field with the bases loaded to end the eighth inning.

Glasnow got the call to start warming up in the sixth inning when the Dodgers were trailing. And entered with the Dodgers ahead. «It was definitely different,» said Glasnow, who last made a relief appearance when he was with the Pirates in 2018. «I was in the bathroom and the