Yu Darvish Took Three Shots And Still Beat The Dodgers

Padres ace Yu Darvish was hit three times in front of more than 50,000 fans at Dodger Stadium on Saturday, but his teammates responded with two home runs to beat the Dodgers 5-3 and the series was tied 1-1. Darvish won his second straight playoff game.

The Dodgers, who led the majors with 111 wins this season and are 14-5 in 19 games against the Padres, are 1-1 at home in the first two games of the Division Series. The Los Angeles Times said, The Dodgers have little room for error on the road.

Yu Darvish gave up three runs and seven hits in five innings, with runners Freddie Freeman, Max Muncy and Justin Turner beating him in the first three. But Padres hitters Manny Machado and Jake Cronenworth combined for a four-RBI shutout. Yu Darvish said, I don t think too much when I hit three home runs. Winning is the most important thing.

Dodgers slugger Clayton Kershaw gave up three runs on six hits in five innings, regardless of the loss. After the game, he was not very satisfied with his performance, "the home run by Machado in the first inning was a miss," "the base hit by Jurickson Profar after two strikes in the second inning was a miss," "the high slider to Juan Soto in the third inning was a miss," Kershaw admitted. Those mistakes did cost me.

He threw a 6K and has 213 strikeouts in the postseason, ahead of Astros Justin Verlander's 208 for the postseason lead.