After the New York Mets punched their ticket to the NLCS, dispatching the favored Philadelphia Phillies, the Los Angeles Dodgers averted, for now, an early October exit by the hands of the San Diego Padres. With a mixture of strong pitching and scorching bats, the Dodgers pressured a Recreation 5 in Los Angeles on Friday.
Leaping on the Padres early, Los Angeles scored in every of the primary three innings. Mookie Betts stayed scorching, blasting a solo dwelling run within the high of the primary inning. Then, Will Smith adopted swimsuit within the third, scorching a no-doubter over the middle subject wall. The Fox Sports activities crew introduced that Smith’s dwelling run was the longest of all the 2024 postseason.
