Dodgers’ pitching in a good place ahead of potential NLDS matchup

Dodgers are not there for conventional wisdom. The Dodgers are there to win the World Series.

What if an unforeseen obstacle appeared before their October path? Dodgers are about to transform this obstacle into an unexpected but well planned advantage over their quest to become the first consecutive champions in baseball in 25 years.

Conventional wisdom affirms that the chances are favorable to a team with a bye, because this team can set up their turning on the series of division as she wishes while her opponent burns through her best arms in the Wild-Card series. The Dodgers are at a victory for the assault on the Wild-Card series and the implementation of their puning rotation for the very good division series, thank you very much.

It turns out that this is what you can do when your starry starting rotation is healthy and effective for the first time all season, precisely the right time.

The Dodgers completely outclassed the Cincinnati Reds 10-5 at the opening of Tuesday in the Tuesday three joker series. If the dodgers win Wednesday, or if they win Thursday, they would progress towards what would be the first match of all the qualifiers in the National League: the dodgers against the phillies of Philadelphia.

“I think the biggest drawback of playing in a joker series, of course, if you are able to move forward, is what your pitching after that looks like,” said Andrew Friedman, president of the Dodgers. “This is the cost.

“And I think, with our depth, it’s really attenuated.”

It’s not over until it is finished. If the angels could go 6-0 against the dodgers this season, the Reds could win the next two games.

However, the Reds used their best launcher, Hunter Greene, in match 1. The Dodgers have their best launcher, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, ready to deploy in match 2.

And, since the format for the best of three Joker was introduced in 2022, the 12 teams that won match 1 won the series.

So plan this. If the dodgers win Wednesday, Shohei Ohtani could start match 1 of the division series on Saturday. If the Reds force a third decisive match Thursday, Ohtani is the planned starter – and, if the Dodgers win, Tyler Glasnow, Emmet Sheehan and Clayton Kershaw could be options for match 1 in the division series.

Kershaw would certainly be available because he is not on the list of jokers and he would rest regularly.

The Dodgers launcher, Clayton Kershaw, would be available to launch the NLDS match 1 if the dodgers advance.

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

“For Clayton Kershaw to stand there, no matter how we deploy our pitch this week, gets the price (to play in the wild round) which is not as great,” said Friedman.

And the division series includes a day off after each of the first two games, which would allow Dodgers to use Snell on five days of rest for match 2 and Yamamoto on six days of rest for match 3.

Dodgers have so much flexibility, in fact, that manager Dave Roberts refused to say that Ohtani would start match 1 of the division series if the dodgers close the Wild-Card series on Wednesday.

“You are moving forward,” said Roberts, “but one of the first two games, probably.”

It is important that Snell held the two -point Reds in Tuesday’s victory, but it is more important that it launched seven rounds. The dodgers asked their listers to cover two rounds with an eight -point lead, and it took four to do it.

The road to the Dodgers to success is clear: more beginners, less erratic readers, and less need to rely on Glasnow and Sheehan in an unknown role.

“The more the starters are deep in the game – one, it means that we are well; but, two, you give the enclosure of the lifts a break and a break, and they become 100% each time they go out,” said Snell.

“It makes a different game that promotes us.”

The Dodgers improvised their path to a title last October, with three starters and four enclosure games. It was not conventional wisdom either.

This time of year, however, most of the playoff teams have three or four reliable runners. Dodgers have six. If they have to play in an additional turn, well, which does not kill them makes them stronger.