MLB playoffs 2025: Dodgers advance to NLCS after an all-timer of a Phillies error
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An epic game ended with an error, and it means the Los Angeles Dodgers are going to the NLCS.
With the bases loaded and two outs in the 11th inning, Andy Pages — the Dodgers' worst hitter of the postseason — hit an easy ground ball to reliever Orion Kerkering. Kerkering booted the ball, then threw it home, too late to save his team's season.
DODGERS ADVANCE TO THE NLCS ON A THROWING ERROR 😱
Dodgers are going to their FOURTH NLCS in the last 6 seasons 👏
(via @MLB)pic.twitter.com/u5cNin29jY— Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) October 10, 2025
Dodger Stadium exploded with noice as soon as the ball left Kerkering's hand, leaving the Phillies walking off the field, shell-shocked. The Dodgers will advance to face the winner of the Brewers-Cubs series.
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For six innings, the game was a full pitcher's duel. Cristopher Sánchez answering the bell was hardly surprising after a season that will see him finish as a Cy Young finalist, but Tyler Glasnow came up huge for the Dodgers nearly two weeks after his last start.
Glasnow and Sánchez exchanged zeros into the seventh inning and allowed six hits combined in that span. It was only in that seventh inning when both bullpens got involved, in ways that inspired second-guessing on both sides. Despite Glasnow being at only 83 pitches, the Dodgers opted to pull him for Emmet Sheehan, who promptly gave up a run on a Nick Castellanos double.
Sánchez stayed in to start the seventh, but allowed two baserunners with one out. The Philles summoned rested closer Jhoan Duran to put out the fire. An Andy Pages grounder put runners on second and third with two outs, and then the Phillies intentionally walked Shohei Ohtani, who to that point was 1-for-17 with eight strikeouts in the series.
The decision blew up in their face when Mookie Betts worked a full-count walk to tie the game, but that obviously wasn't the end of it of their mistakes.
