Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts has announced that 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 to tie the series and win Game 2 before returning to Los Angeles.
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The Dodgers have been fortunate to see dominance mostly from their starting rotation during their postseason run, and the four starters registering a 0.63 ERA during the Milwaukee Brewers’ sweep of the NLCS was another reason to expect the same in the World Series.
Blake Snell had one of his worst postseason performances on Friday, allowing five earned runs, eight hits and three walks to four strikeouts in more than five innings of work.
Snell’s average fastball velocity in his previous outing — a 10-strikeout masterclass over eight scoreless innings with just one hit to capture Game 1 of the NLCS — was 96.1 mph. He generated 22 swinging strikes during the performance. Friday night, his fastball averaged 90 mph and generated just 10 whiffs.
The pesky Blue Jays completely took over during the sixth inning, scoring nine runs in the frame (the most of any team in a World Series game in 57 years), including 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 a little better, but the embarrassing 11-4 score remained the rest of the game.
Game 2 will need to feature some of Yamamoto’s best to give the Dodgers a fighting chance against the American League powerhouse, which is helpful considering his most recent start with a complete-game gem of 111 pitches, but there will also need to be some run support from the defending champions to even the series.
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