Andy Pages shrugs off postseason struggles with go-ahead HR in Dodgers' Opening Day win over D-backs
Andy Pages had maybe the worst offensive postseason in MLB history last year.
After a quiet first few innings, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ offense looked as expected on Opening Day, teeing off on the Arizona Diamondbacks’ pitching staff in an 8-2 win . And even better, the team’s biggest hit came from the player who arguably needed it most entering the season. The last time we saw Andy Pages in a game that counted, he was — well, OK, he was making an incredible catch to save the Dodgers’ bacon in Game 7 of the 2025 World Series.
But that was only the end of perhaps the worst offensive postseason by a player in baseball history , a 4-for-51 stretch of abject misery. Among hitters with at least 50 plate appearances in a single postseason, Pages’ . 211 OPS ranked the worst in MLB history .
You have to go back to 1926 to find the next closest. So one of the team’s biggest questions entering the season was what kind of player the Dodgers would get in center field, the nearly All-Star caliber talent of the regular season or the completely lost player of October. Draft your Yahoo Fantasy Baseball team for the 2026 MLB Season Pages gave them an encouraging sign in the fifth inning, when he clubbed a three-run homer off D-backs starter Zac Gallen to give his team a lead it did not relinquish (video above).
He finished the game 2-for-4, adding a single in the eighth inning. A single home run doesn’t mean a player is fixed, but it’s something Pages never did last postseason. And it comes after a strong spring, in which the 25-year-old hit .