Roki Sasaki got the final three outs of Game 1, earning his first professional save. He’s the sixth Dodger to record their first major league save during the postseason. The others:
“Honestly, I could have gone to a couple other guys in those spots,” Roberts said. “But just kind of knowing who I’ve got, I felt good about those guys we ran out there.”
Ohtani and Sasaki combined to become the first Japanese-born starter and reliever to earn the win and save in the same postseason game in major league history, as noted by Brent Maguire of MLB.com.
Michael Baumann at FanGraphs expertly recapped Game 1, and also set the scene at Citizens Bank Park during pregame introductions: “I’d never seen the most popular athlete in North American sports get booed so loud you couldn’t hear the public address system.”