The 2024 MLB customary season started off Wednesday morning on the opposite side of the world. 


The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres played Game 1 of the two-game Seoul Series at Gocheok Sky Vault in South Korea, and Shohei Ohtani's new group dug out from a deficit in the late innings to procure a 5-2 win (box score). Ohtani had two singles in his Dodgers debut.
San Diego scratched across two goes against Dodgers righty Tyler Glasnow and the Padres took a 2-1 lead into the eighth inning, yet Gavin Lux grounder went through Jake Cronenworth's glove at a respectable starting point - - in a real sense through the glove, it tore through the web - - and that impossible to miss blunder opened the entryway for a four-run inning. Los Angeles got a break and promoted.


Ohtani singled two times, took a base and drove in the Dodgers' fifth and last run, and he likewise committed a base-running error. He didn't modify a respectable halfway point coming back to first on Freddie Freeman's long fly out in the eighth inning, which finished the convention. It was a useful and memorable Dodgers debut for the $700 million man.


Padres shortstop Ha-Seong Kim grew up not far external Seoul and he played seven seasons with the Kiwoom Legends of the Korea Baseball Association prior to taking the leap toward MLB. With the Legends, Gocheok Sky Arch was his home ballpark, so Kim got back to his old favorite spots Wednesday.


Wednesday's down was the very first normal season MLB game played in Korea. Here presently is what you want to realize about the Dodgers' rebound win and the Seoul Series opener.
L.A's. new top of the arrangement overwhelmed



The Dodgers marked Shohei Ohtani to a record - - and vigorously conceded - - 10-year, $700 million agreement, 

this past offseason and, on Wednesday, the highest point of their setup highlighted three MVPs: Mookie Betts, Ohtani, and Freddie Freeman. That is Big amount of star power. The 2024 Dodgers are the fourth group ever to hit three MVPs 1-2-3 in the batting request (by means of Elias Sports Agency):


2024 Dodgers: Mookie Betts, Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman (First day of the season)

1983 Phillies: Joe Morgan, Pete Rose, Mike Schmidt (multiple times)
1978 Reds: Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, George Encourage (May 13)
1976 Reds: Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, Johnny Seat (May 5)


It was somewhat of an unusual beginning to the season. In the highest point of the first, Yu Darvish took excessively lengthy to convey a pitch to Betts and was hit with a pitch clock infringement that was ball four - - Padres pitchers were accused of four contribute clock infringement the game - - so the primary player of 2024 arrived at on a pitch-clock walk. Betts then appeared to effectively take a respectable halfway point, yet he was sent back to first in light of the fact that the home plate umpire impeded the catcher's toss. A surprising top of the first, it was.


There were no clearly grand slams or extra-fair hits Wednesday, 

yet the vaunted top of the Dodgers setup had an extremely useful game. Betts, Ohtani, and Freeman went a consolidated 4 for 11 with two strolls and a hit-by-pitch. Betts and Ohtani each had two singles and drove in a run, and Freeman had the two strolls and the hit-by-pitch. Here is Ohtani's evening:


The Dodgers are considerably more than the highest point of their setup. Max Muncy had a solitary and two strolls, Jason Heyward and Enrique Hernández drove in the Dodgers' initial two runs with sac flies - - Hernàndez didn't begin the game, he pitch-hit for Heyward against the lefty Yuki Matsui in the 6th - - and James Outman arrived at base two times as the No. 7 hitter.


The Padres stacked the bases without any outs in the fourth inning and they scored a sudden spike in demand for Luis Campusano's twofold play, however they scored only that one run. Against a group as great as the Dodgers, taking a screwy number in that inning to dominate the match was going. All things being equal, San Diego got only the one run. You can't anticipate holding this Los Angeles offense down all game.


The Dodgers got somewhat fortunate
Once in a while you really want a little karma, and in the eighth inning, Gavin Lux's potential twofold take care of business went through Jake Cronenworth's glove at a respectable starting point. It tore directly through the webbing. Look at it:


Authoritatively, that is scored a mistake, which is extreme for Cronenworth. He made a decent showing getting to the ball and was ready to make the play. The ball just went through his glove. Charge the blunder to the glove maker, I assume.


The Dodgers had sprinters right away and second without any outs when the ball went through Cronenworth's glove and streamed into shallow right field, permitting James Outman to score the tying run from a respectable halfway point. From that point, the conduits opened as Betts and Ohtani singled in runs. 

I don't know Lux's grounder would have been a twofold play, it would have been extremely close from the get go, however San Diego couldn't get even one out in light of the fact that Cronenworth's glove tore.

Los Angeles scored their most memorable run when Tyler Swim tossed a Teoscar Hernández ground ball, prompting Jason Heyward's sac fly. Lux's grounder then went directly through Cronenworth's glove.



At the point when the Padres committed an error (Swim's mistake),

got a terrible break (Cronenworth's glove), or offered free bases (nine strolls), the Dodgers made use.


The two starters twisted however didn't break

Since the Dodgers and Padres had a marginally more limited than common spring preparing paving the way to the Seoul Series, beginning pitchers Yu Darvish and Tyler Glasnow were both on a 80-ish pitch limit Wednesday, and neither had was especially fresh. They had only two innings between them, both by Glasnow.


For Glasnow, Wednesday was his Dodgers debut subsequent to coming over in an offseason exchange with the Tampa Sound Beams. He spiked a huge amount of contributes front of the plate, the two fastballs and curves, so it appeared he was experiencing some difficulty with the hill. The Padres helped put for certain at-bats on him however, and the Dodgers worked Darvish hard also.


Four Dodgers relievers - - Ryan Brasier, Daniel Hudson, Joe Kelly, Evan Phillips - - held the Padres to two hits in four innings, 

allowing the offense an opportunity to get once more into the game. Wandy Peralta, Jhony Brito, and Adrian Morejon joined to transform that 2-1 lead into a 5-2 shortage for the Padres in that eighth inning. San Diego requested a great deal from its warm up area following Darvish's short beginning and they couldn't make the one-run lead stand up.


Park tossed out the principal pitch with a unique glove

Chan-Ho Park, the main Korean-conceived player in MLB history, tossed out Wednesday's stately first pitch, and he did as such with an exceptional glove. Park got the glove he utilized during his MLB debut in April 1994 from an exhibition hall in his old neighborhood for the event, as per the Orange District Register. Here is Park's most memorable pitch with Ha-Seong Kim behind the plate:


Presently 50, Park played 17 seasons with seven groups from 1994-2010. He appeared with the Dodgers (1994-2001) and furthermore enjoyed two years with the Padres (2005-06). With a 124-98 record, Park is the most dominating Asian-conceived pitcher in MLB history. He has filled in as an extraordinary guide in San Diego's front office beginning around 2017.


Up next

The Dodgers will hope to finish the two-game Seoul Series clear Thursday morning. That is another 6:05 a.m. ET start (7:05 p.m. in Seoul). Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the three-time reigning MVP in Japan's Pacific Association, will make his most memorable MLB start with the Dodgers subsequent to marking a 12-year, $325 million agreement in the offseason. That is the biggest contributing agreement history. The Padres will counter with San Diego local Joe Musgrove. The Padres were the host group Wednesday and the Dodgers will be the host group Thursday.