Pitching, pitching, pitching. That was the storyline in baseball until the Dodger offense took the field and decided to show not why this team was favored to beat the Reds, but why it was widely considered the leading contender to win the World Series at the beginning of the year. Los Angeles faced one of the many aces that started a game this first day of the Wild Card round and simply ran Hunter Greene out of the building with a parade of long balls against him and the Reds’ bullpen.

In a short series, time is not on your side as the superior team, but Shohei Ohtani got that memo, helping Los Angeles take a lead they’d never relinquish with a solo homer in the top of the first.

It was difficult even tracking a missile that left Ohtani’s bat at over 117 MPH before it went over the wall.

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