Teoscar Hernandez belted a three-run home and Shohei Ohtani shrugged off a shaky start to pitch six strong innings as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-3 in game one of their Major League Baseball playoff series on Saturday.

Japanese superstar Ohtani made history in his long awaited playoff pitching debut, becoming the first player to start at last one game as a pitcher and one as a non-pitcher in a single postseason.

He was dinged for three runs in the second inning, issuing a leadoff walk to Alec Bohm that was followed by a two-strike single from Brandon Marsh and a two-run triple from J.T. Realmuto that got past Hernandez.

Realmuto scored on Harrison Bader’s sacrifice fly, but Ohtani settled in, retiring nine straight batters.

He pitched six innings with nine

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