The Los Angeles Dodgers won the Major League Baseball(MLB) opener against the San Diego Padres in Seoul. 

The Dodgers defeated San Diego five-two at Gocheok Sky Dome on Wednesday in the first-ever MLB regular season opener in South Korea.

The Dodgers scored four runs in the eighth inning to turn a two-one deficit into a five-two lead. 

Shohei Ohtani, the Japanese sensation making his Dodgers regular season debut, batted two for five and recorded his first hit, stolen base and RBI of the season.

Kim Ha-seong, the South Korean shortstop for the Padres, went zero for three with a walk.

Joe Musgrove from the Padres and Yoshinobu Yamamoto from the Dodgers will be starting pitchers for the second game of the Seoul series set for Thursday evening.