The Los Angeles Dodgers hadn’t won a postseason series against the Philadelphia Phillies since 1978, but that changed on Saturday night. Against 45,000 raucous Phillies fans, Shohei Ohtani settled down after a three-run second to strike out nine in six innings and lead the Dodgers to a 5-3 win over Kyle Schwarber and Co. It marked only the seventh time in Ohtani’s career that he had struck out 4 times in a game. And only the second time in his career that he had struck out in four consecutive plate appearances. However, in the course of the Phillies’ brutal loss, they lost their $6.25 million outfielder, Harrison Bader.

Bader was pulled from Game 1 of the NLDS due to what was first reported as hamstring tightness. However, later, manager Rob Thomson told the reporters that it’s actually d

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