L.A. is once again scrambling on the pitching front in the postseason. Here's how it can get through the rest of October.
Clayton KershawIt was a remarkable collection of pitching talent. Los Angeles did not want a repeat of 2023, when it reached the playoffs scrambling to find healthy pitchers to start and was eliminated in a three-game sweep at the hands of the. They're down to a three-man starting group -- and one of those, Buehler, won one game in 16 starts in the regular season. Manager Dave Roberts is deploying bullpen games and quick hooks. Somehow, it's working.
"With Yoshinobu's history recently, he hasn't pitched a whole lot," Roberts said."With Flaherty, I feel like we can kind of extend him a little more, which we did. And with Walker, just kind of reading and reacting. I think this year, as far as on the starting pitching side, you just don't really have a guy that you're going to kind of sit back for seven innings. Not like anybody really does. There's probably a handful of those guys in baseball anyway.
Though Roberts would prefer to keep his relief appearances to one inning as much as possible, he did say before Game 4 that he's willing to use a reliever such as Kopech or Treinen three days in a row. It's a lot of complex maneuvering and a far cry from, say, the way Joe Torre managed his bullpen when thewon three straight World Series from 1998 to 2000. Over those three years, the Yankees' bullpen pitched 101 innings in 41 games, for an average of just 2.5 innings per game. Mariano Rivera accounted for 41% of those relief innings and the trio of Rivera, Jeff Nelson and Mike Stanton accounted for 73% of the relief innings.
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