setting their National League Championship Series rotation<\/a>, with Blake Snell in Game 1 and Glasnow in Game 3 because, if needed, they would be available to start in Games 3 and 7, respectively, on four days rest. Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Ohtani get at least five days rest between starts.<\/p>\nGlasnow got five outs of scoreless, traffic-filled relief in Game 1 of the NLDS and then started in Game 4 against the Phillies and in Game 3 of the NLCS against the Brewers. He\u2019s allowed only one run in 13 1\/3 innings this October, with 18 strikeouts and eight walks.<\/p>\n
Scherzer struggled down the stretch for the Blue Jays with a 9.00 ERA over 25 innings in six starts, and didn\u2019t pitch during the American League Division Series. Scherzer struck out five, walked four, and allowed two runs in 5 2\/3 innings in Game 4 of the ALCS, earning his eight career postseason win, and his first since 2019.<\/p>\n
Ohtani has started twice on the mound this postseason for the Dodgers, and won both games. He struck out nine in six innings and allowed three runs in Game 1 of the NLDS, and struck out 10 in six-plus scoreless innings in Game 4 of the NLCS to clinch the pennant on October 17.<\/p>\n
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Toronto acquired Bieber at the trade deadline from the Guardians, while he was working his way back from Tommy John surgery. He had a 3.57 ERA in seven starts down the stretch, with 37 strikeouts and seven walks in 40 1\/3 innings. Bieber has been up and down in his three postseason starts, pitching six innings once between starts of 2 2\/3 and 3 2\/3 innings. In all he has a 4.38 ERA in 12 1\/3 innings this October with 15 strikeouts and three walks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The World Series shifts to Dodger Stadium with both the Dodgers and Blue Jays flying to Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[114022,8974,18619,22360,4279,3031,381,363,105313,51804,39121,3956,99,12378,8963],"class_list":["post-251576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-american-league-division-series","tag-blake-snell","tag-blue-jays","tag-dodger-stadium","tag-dodgers","tag-los-angeles","tag-max-scherzer","tag-mlb","tag-national-league-championship-series","tag-scoreless-innings","tag-shane-bieber","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-toronto","tag-yoshinobu-yamamoto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}