Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts has revealed his starting pitcher for Game 4 of the NLDS (if necessary).
Although he pitched 1.2 innings in relief on Saturday, right-hander Tyler Glasnow is still in line to start Game 4.
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Of Glasnow’s 34 pitches on Saturday, he hurled two strikeouts and generated four swings and misses, allowing two walks and one hit during his first relief outing since 2018.
Glasnow would enter the game after six innings from starting pitcher Shohei Ohtani, who hurled nine strikeouts and allowed three earned runs off three hits.
Starting pitching has been one of the bright spots on the roster lately, but has been foiled by many abysmal relief pitching outings. To kick off the Wild Card round, two-time Cy Young award winner Blake Snell went seven innings with nine strikeouts and Yoshinobu Yamamoto secured the series win with nine K’s of his own through 6.2 frames.
The Dodgers Game 2 starter for the NLDS will be Snell once on Monday night. With Glasnow penned for the potential Game 4, there will likely be other options out of relief to follow Snell, but a few arms seem to have stepped up recently to hold things down outside of the rotation.
Roki Sasaki, the 23-year-old rookie from Japan, had the opportunity to earn his first career MLB save on Saturday and lived up to the challenge as a raucous Citizens Bank Park roared down at him. The right-hander made just his fourth MLB appearance out of the bullpen to close out Game 1, but is already looking like a staple in relief, at least for the postseason.
Another option who wasn’t on the Wild Card roster is future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw.
The three-time Cy Young award winner is an option out of the bullpen for the NLDS and has been effective as ever this season. In his 112.2 innings of work this season, he totaled a 3.36 ERA as he looks to earn a third World Series ring this postseaon.
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Not speaking English that well was probably a bonus for Sasaki. Some of the things that Phillies fans were yelling at him (In the City of Brotherly Love…HA!) were probably not even understood by him and were just noise in his mind. He looked great and pitched like a veteran except for the one slider that hung and got hit for a double in the ninth but he stranded that runner and got his first SAVE. ROKI OF THE YEAR!
I’m sure there’s a few with thin skins, but players have got to be used to boo birds and name calling. Booing the other team in baseball is like booing at a silent move. They’re not supposed to like you.
On the other hand, being booed by your own fans is not a good thing. That’s different.