Shohei Ohtani hit a three-run homer in his postseason debut, Teoscar Hernández’s two-run single gave Los Angeles its first lead in a playoff game in two years, and the Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres 7-5 in their NL Division Series opener.

Then Shohei Ohtani happened. It’s easy to make too much of Ohtani’s two-out, three-run homer to tie the game in the bottom of the second inning, but it’s riskier to make too little of it. It was an absolute bolt that woke everyone up,