Dodgers manager Dave Roberts says the club is used to criticism over its unique personnel decisions and adds fan critique of NLCS pitching changes is good for the game.
might push the left-hander’s next start from Game 3 to Game 4 to give Urías an extra day of rest after he was roughed up for two runs and three hits and failed to preserve a 4-2 lead.
They had five quality arms — Phil Bickford, Justin Bruihl, Brusdar Graterol, setup man Blake Treinen and closer Kenley Jansen — left in a bullpen that Roberts called the best he has taken into a postseason. Graterol started the ninth and gave up a leadoff single and two groundouts, the second advancing Dansby Swanson to second base. Jansen entered, and his first pitch was smacked to center field for a walk-off RBI single by Eddie Rosario.
“That’s certainly something that’s alive,” Roberts said. “It’s something we’ve kind of had to deal with all year, every year, as far as the way we go about how we manage a roster or how we go about playing games and using pitchers.
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