For a fleeting moment in the top of the first inning Wednesday night, it felt like the Los Angeles Dodgers might be walking into one of those cursed October nights.

Teoscar Hernández had settled under a can-of-corn fly ball that should have ended the inning without damage. Instead, it clanged off his glove, bouncing into the grass as two Reds runners scrambled into scoring position.

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Seconds later, Sal Stewart sent them both home, staking Cincinnati to an improbable two-run early lead, leaving Hernández standing in right field with his head down, knowing he’d gifted his opponents two unearned runs.

But the postseason has a way of twisting mistakes into storylines. In this case, the Dodgers refused to let that erro

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