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“BASEBALL ON FRIDAY”
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The Dodgers gambled and it worked.
The Padres gambled and it blew up in their face.

Let me be the first in the morning to 2nd guess what the managers did.

And now this, there will be a Dodgers-Padres fifth and deciding game on Friday, after LA posted a lopsided win that silenced the 47,000-crowd and sends this series back to Chavez Ravine and the Dodgers crazies.

Mike Schildt has been brilliant this entire season.  But not on Wednesday night.

He started Dylan Cease on 3-days rest, the first time ever in his career, and he detonated like a bomb.

Item one, Cease threw 82-pitches and struggled in his last start against the Dodgers, then fell apart early in this start.

Item two, the Friars had a rested Martin Perez to start what could have been an insurance game for the team.  He has pitched pretty well since coming over in the trade deadline deal.  Why not use him, and then if forced, turn it into a bullpen day?

Even if you lost, you would have a rested Cease ready for that 5th game come Friday.  Now with Cease getting belted, in the 5th game on Friday, you now have to ask Yu Darvish to pitch on short rest in LA, and who know how Darvish copes when you change a pitcher’s routine.

Interesting storylines, Darvish-Yosh Yamamoto-Shohei Ohtani coming Friday.

Bad call though by Schildt.

For Dave Roberts, I thought bullpen day would spell trouble, considering all the problems Roberts has had with pitching in the postseason for years.

He pulled Ryan Brasier in the 2nd inning.  He went to his closer Michael Kopech early.  Ditto the same with Evan Phillip, guys you would bet on late in games.
For Roberts, he got some matchups he wanted and he found outs, but the use of his closers so early was strange.

The top of the Dodgers batting order ran roughshod in the game, getting on base 8-times, surely making a difference too.

It only counts as one win, but it prolongs the LA season into Friday night, where a rested Yosh Yamamoto will get the start, while the Padres will go with a starter on short rest again.

Hate to think this one Schildt decision could impact-end the Padres season.  It ended an (8-0) win, with 8-bullpen pitchers surviving and LA smacking 3-bombs.  You think to yourself, why was this allowed to happen?

There will be baseball on Friday night.  Winner then moves on, somebody goes home a loser.

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