The end came swiftly for the best regular season team baseball has seen since 2001. Too swiftly. The Los Angeles Dodgers lost their National League Division Series against the San Diego Padres. Their 111 wins didn't save them, nor did their 14-5 record against San Diego in the spring and summer. They went 1-3 in the fall. And so they fell.
Every Dodgers October exit summons a new referendum on Roberts, but this one is weaker than most. It was probably his most conventional turn at bullpen management, mostly by necessity. The biggest mistake was almost certainly a failure to use relief ace Evan Phillips in the decisive seventh inning of Game 4. Perhaps — PERHAPS — he could have put the Dodgers in better position by squeezing a few more outs out of starter Tyler Anderson.
It’s true that the Dodgers have been more careful with frontline starters than other teams, that they are attuned to the penalty pitchers incur facing a lineup two or three times, especially in the playoffs. And you know what? Usually they have had such an abundance of good arms that it made sense to pitch that way.
Building a great bullpen? I’m sure it’s on the Dodgers’ to-do list, but it's not clear we would be discussing this at all if the almost unassailable, star-studded offense hadn't dried up for a weekend.Everyone who invested their time and emotional energy in the 2022 Dodgers deserves to vent, to stew over how incongruous this team’s final moments were given its performance over the long summer.
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