![]() ![]() Julio Urías and Clayton Kershaw will start the first two games - Dave Roberts said both pitchers know which game, but that hasn’t yet been publicly revealed ( Bill Plunkett has more at the Orange County Register) - with Tyler Anderson and Tony Gonsolin after that. If May or Treinen are deemed healthy enough, they will likely be active for the NLDS. He last pitched in a game on September 5. Then after pitching twice in September landed back on the injured list with more shoulder soreness. If he’s ready - after making only six major league starts this season since returning from Tommy John surgery - May is likely in the Tony Gonsolin zone of not yet fully stretched out, and at most would be a three- or four-inning candidate during the NLDS.īlake Treinen only pitched in five games this season, first missing four and a half months with a torn scapula in his right shoulder. On the pitching side, Dustin May is working his way back from lower back soreness that sidelined him for the final two weeks of the regular season. Chris Taylor missed the final five games of the regular season with neck stiffness and had a cortisone shot last Monday, but in seemingly every interview since, Dave Roberts has hinted that even if Taylor would only be ready for part of the Division Series he’d still make the roster. The Dodgers are using that time to evaluate a trio of injured regulars. In the first year of a 12-team playoff format ushered in with the new collective bargaining agreement, the top two seeds in each league get a bye directly into the NLDS, which this year comes with five days off between the regular season and Game 1 of the playoffs. Los Angeles did not have home field advantage last year except in the wild card game, but this year every Dodgers series will begin with two games at Dodger Stadium. Last season saw the Dodgers vie for the division until the final day of the regular season, only to settle for 106 wins in second place and a date in the wild card game before playing San Francisco in the NLDS. “I think we’re savoring this weekend more after what we went through last year.” “We’re fortunate we get the weekend to kind of take it all in and figure it out,” Andrew Friedman told reporters at Dodger Stadium Friday. The Dodgers have only a few personnel decisions to make for the National League Division Series, and with the roster not due until Tuesday morning, they have earned the right to take their time. ![]()
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