Usually the Dodgers wait until October to collapse.
This season, they’re getting a head start.
Usually the Dodgers wait until their first postseason opponent actually shows up before they wreck a summer’s worth of overblown expectations.
This season, their first postseason opponent is themselves, and the cratering begins now.
Tyler Glasnow is done, and it feels like the Dodgers could be done with him.
Their ace with a history of injuries is broken again, and a team with a history of autumn wounds could be breaking apart with him.
Either that, or the Dodgers are going to become the first team in baseball history to win the World Series with a one-man rotation.
Not gonna lie, folks, it’s not looking good, not after Glasnow lived down to every expectation Saturday afternoon by being eliminated from the postseason because of an elbow injury. This leaves a healthy and proven rotation of Jack Flaherty and … and that’s it.
Incidentally, that last paragraph was written before Flaherty gave up four runs in three innings against the playoff-hungry Atlanta Braves later Saturday in easily his worst start since joining the Dodgers at the trade deadline.
Is it any wonder that manager Dave Roberts responded to the Glasnow news by telling reporters, “It’s certainly a hit.”
As hard as any Shohei Ohtani blast, for sure.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto is now the No. 2 starter behind Flaherty, and yet he’s thrown only four innings in the last three months, and he’s never pitched in a major-league postseason, and how can anybody really trust him?
