Before the game started, the national anthem was sung by 16-year old actress and singer Isabela Moner.
She is known from the Nickelodeon TV-series '100 Things To Do Before High School' (2014-2016), but also from her role as Izabella in the movie Transformers: The Last Knight (2017).
The ceremonial first pitch in Dodger Stadium was thrown by 91-year old legendary Dodger-great Don Newcombe, who played for the Dodgers in 1949-1951 and then again in 1954-1958.
Newcombe, who still is a special advisor in the Dodger-organization, was the first-ever winner of the Cy Young Award in 1956 when he also was named Most Valuable Player of the National League.
Curaçao-born Dodger-closer Kenley Jansen caught the ball thrown by Newcombe.
The Dodgers struck early off of starter Taijuan Walker.
He gave up a lead-off single to Chris Taylor, then walked Corey Seager.
Hereafter, Justin Turner drove a line drive into left-centerfield for a 3-run homerun.
The hitting continued, as Cody Bellinger then singled and scored on a following double by Yasiel Puig.
Now trailing 4-0 and with still no outs, Walker struckout veteran Curtis Granderson, who came to the Dodgers in August after a trade with the New York Mets.
Walker then also struckout Yasmani Grandal.
With pitcher Clayton Kershaw on deck and first base open, next hitter Logan Forsythe was walked intentionally.
Walker closed the long at bat by striking out Kershaw.
Arizona got one run back in the third inning when A.J. Pollock homered with two outs, but the Dodgers then took more distance.
In the bottom of the fourth, the home team rallied for three more runs to lift the lead to 7-1.
Logan Forsythe led off with a single and moved on a sacrifice bunt by Clayton Kershaw.
After next hitter Chris Taylor had walked, Corey Seager and Justin Turner followed with runscoring singles.
Hereafter, the bases got loaded when Cody Bellinger reached on an error, then the next run was scored on a grounder by Yasiel Puig.
Arizona then came back into the game somewhat.
In the sixth, J.D. Martínez hit a solo-homerun for Arizona.
Two more runs were added in the seventh when Ketel Marte and Jeff Mathis hit back-to-back homeruns off of Kershaw.
The Dodger-starter was relieved hereafter by Tony Watson.
Leading 7-4, the Dodgers scored two insurance runs in the bottom of the eighth inning.
New pitcher Andrew Chafin gave up a lead-off single to Austin Barnes and was replaced by Jimmie Sherfy.
He got a grounder from Chris Taylor that moved Barnes to second base.
Sherfy then gave up an RBI-triple to Corey Seager, who scored himself on a following single by Justin Turner to make it a 9-4 score.
Arizona managed to add only one more run in the ninth on an error that followed a force play-grounder by Jake Lamb off of closer Kenley Jansen.
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Dodgers outscore Diamondsbacks in National League Division Series-opener
LOS ANGELES, California (USA) -
Los Angeles Dodgers opened the best-of-five National League Division Series against Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday-evening (October 6) with a 9-5 victory.
The Series continues on Saturday.
The Dodgers collected 12 basehits.
The team was led by Justin Turner, who was 3-for-4, including a homerun, and batted in five runs.