Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts announced Tyler Glasnow will start Game 3 and Shohei Ohtani will start Game 4 of the World Series.
The Dodgers will have Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound Saturday night to try and even the series and take Game 2 before heading back to Los Angeles.
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The Dodgers have been lucky enough to see mostly dominance from their starting rotation during their postseason run, and the four starters registering a 0.63 ERA during the sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers during the NLCS was another reason to expect the same in the World Series.
Blake Snell struggled on Friday, though, allowing five earned runs, eight hits, and three walks to four strikeouts across 5+ innings of work.
Snell’s average fastball velocity during his previous outing — a 10-strikeout masterclass across eight scoreless innings that featured just one hit to capture Game 1 of the NLCS— was 96.1 mph. He generated 22 swinging strikes during the performance. On Friday night, his fastball was averaging 95.7 mph and he generated just 10 whiffs.
The pesky Blue Jays completely took over during the sixth inning, putting up nine runs in the frame (the most by any team in a World Series game in 57 years) which included the first-ever pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history.
During the next inning, Game 4 starter Shohei Ohtani launched his first-ever World Series home run, a two-run shot to make things marginally better, but the embarrasing 11-4 score held for the rest of the contest.
Game 2 will have to feature some of Yamamoto’s best stuff for the Dodgers to have a chance against the American League powerhouse, which is convenient given his most recent start featured a 111-pitch complete game gem, but there will also have to be some run support from the defending champions to even up the series.
Then, the Dodgers will turn to Glasnow (0.68 ERA across 13.1 innings this postseason) and Ohtani (2.25 ERA across 12 postseason innings).
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