Division Series Game 1 winners and losers: Teoscar Hernández strikes again, Munetaka Murakami gets his moment

The 2026 MLB postseason resumed on Saturday with Game 1 of all four Division Series matchups. Since the best-of-five Division Series became a thing in 1995, the team that wins Game 1 has gone on to win the series 73% of the time, and 32% of the time the series ended in a sweep. Winning Game 1 doesn't guarantee a Division Series win, but it is a big advantage.

Here are the final scores and schedule for Saturday's playoff action:

To sum up all the Game 1 action, we're here to declare a winner and loser from each of the four games. You can find those authoritative and inarguable declarations just below.

Despite the scorching hot weather — game time temperature was 100 degrees in the second-hottest playoff first pitch ever — the offenses were pretty quiet in this one. It was a scoreless tie in the middle of the fourth inning. A one-out walk to Freddie Freeman set the table for one of the more prolific playoff home run hitters in recent history, and Teoscar Hernández responded by going deep to give the Dodgers a 2-0 lead.

That was the 11th career playoff home run for Hernández, including at…

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