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See, guys? It's so easy for the Dodgers to win against the Jays!!! They just need one of the best starters in the game to pitch a complete gem in <110 pitches to avoid handing it over to the domestic terrorists in their pen!
 
At least God himself ain't pitching for a few games
 
Tommy John Surgery said:
See, guys? It's so easy for the Dodgers to win against the Jays!!! They just need one of the best starters in the game to pitch a complete gem in <110 pitches to avoid handing it over to the domestic terrorists in their pen!
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This but unironically.

The Jays are built to put the ball in play. Homer’s are great, but the gameplan for the Jays is to just exhaust pitchers in as few innings as possible, and the Dodgers share the Jays biggest flaw - the bullpen isn’t that great.

This entire series is going to come down to “Who goes into the bullpen first?” every game, isn’t it?
 
Yamamoto did what he had to do to ensure that the Dodgers would be able to get back to LA with the series at 1-1. That was a legendary pitching performance and the bats showed up just enough to ensure that he'd be able to close it out.

This series remains so finely poised because with Glasnow and Shohei, we're not going to get complete games. The best case scenario is that both guys go 6-7 innings, which then opens it up to the complete crapshoot that is the Dodgers' bullpen.

Who exactly can one even trust from this group of "literally who" tier numbskulls ? Sasaki is the only sure thing as far as true closers go but he's not going to be able to pitch 3 consecutive games. Treinen I like a lot personally but you just have no idea whatsoever as to where his stuff is at.

Banda was supposed to be the lefty killer but he just got blasted for a motherfucking grand slam in Game 1 so his confidence is probably shot. Wrobleski and Dreyer are basically the same player and by that I mean guys you throw out there on some Brent Honeywell shit to eat innings in a punt game.

Henriquez can hit triple digits and while he looked good against bad teams during the regular season, once hitters started getting to him he hasn't been the same pitcher. Sheehan is a question mark because while he was decent as a starter, I question his ability to come into high leverage situations and get big outs. Clayton Kershaw isn't even good enough to throw out there to eat innings...I mean, not unless the Dodgers want to have some ignominious records made against them such as number of homers given up in 1 inning.

So who the fuck is even left to be the bridge guy to Sasaki ? I mean, I unironically think that Will Klein looks to be in pretty decent form but Dave Roberts is never going to take that kind of risk in a close game (even though he really should given the names we've gone through).

All this to say that this is still very much anyone's series, especially if the Dodgers decide that their bats are going to stay asleep. You can only go back to the "great starting pitching" well so many times. If they can't score at least 5 runs each game, then they'll be lucky to split the next 2 games.

If that happens then they may well have to punt Game 5 and then go back to Toronto needing to win both games. Crazy as this sounds, this may technically be the best option under this scenario because you at least have Snell back for Game 6 and then Yamamoto starting in Game 7 with all hands on deck (potentially Ohtani, Glasnow and Sasaki to all pitch in relief).
 
Fucking knew that Glasnow couldn’t be trusted.

What the fuck use is it to have all of this time off if your spray pattern is going to look like some gangbanger nigger’s target practice when he’s holding a gun sideways ?
 
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Blue Jays and Dodgers bullpens

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