The “even keel” reliever doesn’t have any entrance music, but he has the lowest ERA of any National League reliever with at least 11 appearances and is a key piece of a bullpen that has found itsel…
LOS ANGELES ― Shelby Miller walked off the field in the 10th inning Sunday night pounding his fist into his glove. Evan Phillips didn’t walk so much as strut, double-fist pumping as he celebrated a bases-loaded strikeout to end the ninth. Brusdar Graterol did what he always does, fist-pumping toward the sky, after getting Thairo Estrada to end the eighth inning with a groundout.
In fact, among all National League relievers, you’d have to lower the minimum number of appearances to 10 to find one with a lower ERA than Brasier. It is the most quietly dominant performance by any Dodger player this season.“If you can’t get it going to pitch out there in front of 50,000 people I think you’re in the wrong job,” he said.
The Dodgers can’t construct an entire plane out of their relief pitching, but they might want to. Since the All-Star break, no team has a lower bullpen ERA than the Dodgers . They also lead the Senior Circuit in opponents’ batting average , WHIP and, perhaps most importantly, stranding runners on base .
Rob Hill, the Dodgers’ director of minor league pitching, was on hand at Camelback Ranch to help implement the cutter. Brasier threw it in a couple of bullpen sessions, tried it out at Triple-A, then took it to the majors when he was promoted on June 20. The rest is history. For a time, the story of the Dodgers’ bullpen was shaping into a race against the calendar. Veterans Daniel Hudson and Blake Treinen were supposed to be the veteran right-handed anchors who could set up or close games if needed, but both have been beset by injuries this year.
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