The Los Angeles Dodgers will avoid an NLDS upset for a third year in a row.With a tight 2-0 win over the San Diego Padres in Game 5 at home on Friday, the Dodgers won their first playoff series of the current postseason format. They lost in the NLDS each of the last two seasons to wild card teams.It is the first postseason series victory of Shohei Ohtani's MLB career.The Dodgers' Yoshinobu Yamamoto out-dueled the Padres' Yu Darvish in a historic playoff matchup of Japanese-born starters, and the Los Angeles Dodgers got home runs from Kiké Hernández and Teoscar Hernández