In the major league playoffs on the 23rd, Padres pitcher Yu Darvish started in Game 5 of the National League championship series against the Phillies, and gave up two goals in the middle of the seventh inning, but the Padres were reversed in the final stages and scored three games. Lost at 4 and the match record was 1 win and 4 losses, and the series loss was decided.
The Phillies won the World Series for the first time in 13 years.
The fifth game, which the Padres had 1 win and 3 losses, was held in Philadelphia, the home of the Phillies, and pitcher Darvish started in 4 days.
In the early stages, control was not fixed, and in the 3rd inning, after taking 2 outs, a four-ball was given, and No. 2 Hoskins, who had hit 2 homers in the previous game, hit a two-run homer and scored 2 runs. it was done.
After the 4th inning, he recovered and showed tenacious pitching without allowing a hit until the 6th inning.
In the 7th inning, the team turned 3 to 2, and when the back was hit by two bases, I got off the mound with the right of the winning pitcher.
Darvish allowed 2 runs on 4 hits in the middle of the 7th inning, gave 5 foreballs and dead balls, and struck out 5.
In the 8th inning of 3 to 2, the relief pitcher was hit by a two-run home run by No. 4 Harper and was reversed, and the Padres lost 3 to 4 and lost the series.
On the other hand, the Phillies won the league for the first time in 13 years and won the league title for the eighth time in 13 years with a record of 4 wins and 1 loss with 3 consecutive wins, and decided to advance to the World Series.
The Padres, which Darvish belongs to, advanced to the playoffs with a wild card from second place in the National League West Division.
In the playoffs, they defeated the Mets and Dodgers, both of whom had 100 wins or more in the season, and aimed to advance to the World Series in the league championship series for the first time in 24 years since 1998, but they fell short.