Winners and losers of MLB Game 1s, including Teoscar Hernández's redemption

You can’t win a best-of-five Division Series in Game 1 – but it’s possible you can lose it.

All four NL and AL division series jumped off with a bang Oct. 4 and while momentum may or may not be a real thing, the joy of getting 33% of the way to moving on cannot be underestimated.

And though there’s time for redemption and also an untimely downfall, going 1-0 on this day can be so important.

With that, USA TODAY Sports breaks down the winners and losers from all the Game 1s of the division series:

The Life of Teo is simply a never-ending roller-coaster ride – and thankfully for the Los Angeles Dodgers, it crested at just the right time to steal Game 1 of their NL Division Series at Philadelphia.