LOS ANGELES — On a first day of the MLB postseason in which scoring was at a premium, the Dodgers picked up the slack on offense. Teoscar Hernández and Shohei Ohtani each hit two of the Dodgers’ five home runs in a 10-5 win over the Cincinnati Reds in Game 1 of the wild card series on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium that somehow felt too close for comfort.

It’s just the second time in Dodgers postseason history they had two players with multiple home runs in the same game, along with Game 5 of the 2021 NLCS when Chris Taylor hit three and AJ Pollock hit two. Five total home runs on Tuesday also matched a Dodgers postseason record, done in that 2021 game as well as Game 3 of the 2020 NLCS.

This season was a rough ride for Hernández, who was sidelined in May by a groin injury that hampered

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