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The Dodgers open their best-of-three wild-card playoff series against the Cincinnati Reds with a 10-5 win.

Shohei Ohtani and Teoscar Hernández each homered twice as Dodgers matched a franchise postseason record with five total home runs.

Blake Snell dominated for seven innings, but the bullpen struggled in the eighth inning.

This year, October started a day early for the Dodgers .

Thanks to their underwhelming regular season, their march toward postseason history began before the month even started.

This season’s team, coaches and players acknowledged repeatedly in recent weeks, had played their way into this spot: Having to begin the playoffs on the last day of September, in

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