Searching the whole of the National League, one will not find a team utilizing a starting pitcher at or near the caliber of Tyler Glasnow this Saturday. Scheduling and other outside factors led to some rotations\u2014including the Dodgers\u2014not necessarily starting the season in descending order of skill set, but the point is valid all the same. It won\u2019t get much easier for opposing offenses against the Dodgers, at least not while this rotation can stay\u2014knock on wood\u2014moderately healthy.<\/p>\n
As much as we could focus on Glasnow and his outlook heading into a third season with the Dodgers, for a third game of the season, this will be as big an endurance test to the bullpen early on as one could ask for. For starters, Glasnow isn\u2019t the type of pitcher to go that deep into a game, even when he\u2019s rolling, a byproduct of all those strikeouts. Secondly and most importantly, the Dodgers\u2019 bullpen has excelled in a sizeable share of work these past two days. Dodger relievers have covered nearly a full game\u2019s worth of baseball, responsible for 8.2 scoreless frames in a pair of two wins against the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n
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It speaks to the depth of this unit that the Dodgers were able to cover all of these innings with Tanner Scott being the only pitcher who appeared in both games. And even Scott had a minimal workload in both games, not even cracking double-digit pitches.<\/p>\n
Kyle Tucker\u2019s go-ahead RBI takes the headlines, but the Dodgers don\u2019t win that game if Jack Dreyer and Ben Casparius falter early on, both asked to throw 20+ pitches in a game the Dodgers only got 10 outs from their starter.<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s game info<\/p>\n
Teams: Dodgers vs. Diamondbacks<\/p>\n
Ballpark: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles<\/p>\n
Radio: AM 570 (English), KTNQ 1020 AM (Spanish), 98.7 FM\u2019s Arizona Sports Station, KNAI 101.9 FM \/ 860 AM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Searching the whole of the National League, one will not find a team utilizing a starting pitcher at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1017,2317,19292,4647,22360,19296,10006,3031,2323,363,11999,99,8967,8970],"class_list":["post-550947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-ben-casparius","tag-ca","tag-dodger-stadium","tag-jack-dreyer","tag-kyle-tucker","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-national-league","tag-sports","tag-tanner-scott","tag-tyler-glasnow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550947","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=550947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}