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AJ Cassavell
The Seoul Collection delivered the products.
After the Dodgers staged a late rally to win Game 1<\/a>, the Padres responded by profitable a 15-11 slugfest in Recreation 2 on Thursday to earn a break up in Main League Baseball\u2019s first-ever video games in South Korea.
In case you missed any of the motion — and there was loads of it on this one — right here\u2019s a take a look at the most important moments from Recreation 2 of the Seoul Collection:
An archive of the broadcast<\/a> will probably be out there free of charge.
One other festive pregame<\/strong>
For the second straight day, all of it acquired underway with a quick Okay-pop live performance, this time from the group (G)I-DLE, accompanied by a lightweight present. Fernando Tatis Jr. had the most effective seat in the home for it.
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After one other day of full lineup introductions, Ken Griffey Jr. took the mound for the ceremonial first pitch, earlier than he handed a pair of baseballs to 2 native Little Leaguers, every of whom delivered a strike.
Padres bounce throughout Yamamoto<\/strong>
Yoshinobu Yamamoto\u2019s big league debut<\/a> lasted one inning and 43 pitches, because the Padres tagged him for 5 runs in a livid first-inning rally.
Jake Cronenworth, whose glove mishap allowed the go-ahead run<\/a> to attain the earlier evening, delivered the most important hit of the body — a two-run triple into the right-field nook.
Tatis\u2019 absolute missile<\/strong>
The toughest-hit ball of the Seoul Collection? That may be this 116.7 mph laser of a single off the bat of Fernando Tatis Jr. — additionally the hardest-hit ball of his profession.
Michael Grove, getting into the sport for Yamamoto after only one inning, gave Tatis a 97 mph fastball on the outer half. Tatis turned it round and added just a few additional ticks of velo to it for his first hit of the season.
Merrill on the board<\/strong>
Jackson Merrill's first Main League hit was a part of one other huge Padres rally, as they prolonged their result in 9-2 within the prime of the third inning.
A day earlier, Merrill, the Padres\u2019 No. 2 prospect<\/a> and MLB Pipeline\u2019s No. 12 general, grew to become the youngest Opening Day middle fielder since Griffey. Fittingly sufficient, for a second straight day, Griffey was within the Gocheok Sky Dome\u2019s digital camera nicely snapping photos of the second.
Merrill would end 2-for-5 with a double, simply lacking his first profession house run within the fifth.
Dodgers get again in it<\/strong>
By the underside of the third inning, it was abundantly clear we had been headed for a Seoul slugfest.
The Dodgers chased Padres starter Joe Musgrove, who allowed 5 runs throughout 2 2\/3 innings. Mookie Betts\u2019 two-run double off reliever Tom Cosgrove minimize the deficit to 3. With the Padres\u2019 bullpen a bit skinny after Recreation 1, they might name on No. 4 starter Michael King to cowl the majority of the aid innings.
Mookie mashes, wins a automotive<\/strong>
The primary huge league house run in South Korea — and the primary dinger of the 2024 season — belongs to Betts<\/a>. So does a brand new Hyundai IONIQ 5 electrical car.
The Dodgers famous person turned on a 3-1 fastball from King, sending it to the left-field seats on the Gocheok Sky Dome. Betts' house run minimize the Padres' result in 10-8 — and it additionally earned him a automotive as the primary participant to go deep within the Seoul Collection.
Hit a homer, get a fist bump from Ken Griffey Jr. pic.twitter.com\/OEjRq81s1h<\/a>
HSK love<\/strong>
It was a tough couple days on the plate for Ha-Seong Kim, the one Padres starter to go hitless within the collection. However that didn\u2019t cease the love-fest again on the Gocheok Sky Dome, the place Kim as soon as performed his house video games with the Kiwoom Heroes.
Kim acquired a rousing ovation as he got here to the plate with the bases loaded within the seventh inning, earlier than he popped out behind the plate. This fan will probably be protecting the religion.
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A nailbiter<\/strong>
Betts' fourth hit of the evening introduced the Dodgers inside a run within the backside of the eighth inning. On the lookout for a four-out save, the Padres went to nearer Robert Suarez. Betts greeted him with a single up the center off Xander Bogaerts' glove, then superior to second on the throw house.
Suarez managed to strand Betts there by getting Shohei Ohtani to floor out. The Padres clung to a 12-11 lead.
Machado\u2019s grand finale<\/strong>
Hitless for the primary 17 innings of the collection, Manny Machado acquired on the board in an enormous means. He launched an impressive three-run blast into the left-field seats, giving the Padres the 15-11 lead that will finally get up.
The 26 runs had been essentially the most scored in a recreation within the historical past of the rivalry, and the Padres\u2019 15 runs are essentially the most they\u2019ve ever scored towards Los Angeles. Machado, in the meantime, joined Bogaerts with house runs in 4 totally different international locations. (Each have gone deep within the U.S. and Canada, and each went deep within the Mexico Metropolis Collection final yr, with Bogaerts homering for the Pink Sox within the 2019 London Collection.) Tony Clark and Michael Brantley are the one different gamers to homer in 4 totally different international locations or territories, with each having gone deep in Puerto Rico.
Machado\u2019s homer basically put an finish to any late drama, and Suarez secured a break up for San Diego by blowing a 100 mph fastball previous Max Muncy.
If the season-opening collection was any indication, the 2024 season ought to be a wild one.<\/p>\n