Tuesday’s contributions from Evan Phillips, Alex Vesia, Brusdar Graterol and Chris Martin suggest the benefits of the closer-less ’pen.
LOS ANGELES — We have said it frequently in this space: Every fan base in baseball hates its bullpen at one time or another. Especially in October, when things can go south at the worst possible time.give themselves some ninth-inning flexibilityThere is no individual who will be the lightning rod, and maybe that’s one of the greatest advantages of a closer-less bullpen.
So, starting with the sixth, the chain went from Evan Phillips to Alex Vesia to Brusdar Graterol and finally to Chris Martin, who locked down his first postseason save as a Dodger and got the ball afterward, encased in plastic.It’s not a new concept, necessarily, but it’s fairly new to the Dodgers, the idea that there’s no one guy whose domain is the ninth inning.
“We’ve all bought into this concept of, when your name is called and the phone rings, you go get those outs,” Phillips said after his sixth inning Tuesday night, when he got into trouble by giving up a walk to Juan Soto and a dribbler up the third base line by Machado, but struck out pinch-hitter Josh Bell and got Wil Myers on a sharp grounder that Gavin Lux turned into a double play.
“Sometimes we have to be prepared for multiple situations. So I think what we have to do physically to prepare ourselves down there maybe varies on a day-to-day basis. But that’s on our end to make sure we’re ready for whenever our name is called.”
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