Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman often refers to the playoffs as the “theater of October.”
On the first day of the month Wednesday night, Game 2 of the National League wild-card series was only four batters old when the Dodgers had some dramatic adversity strike.
With two outs in the top of the first, Yoshinobu Yamamoto induced a routine fly ball down the right-field line. Outfielder Teoscar Hernández positioned himself under it. Ninety-nine percent of the time, the inning would have ended there.
This time, however, Hernández committed a horrifying mistake. The ball hit off the heel of his mitt.