Doders manager Dave Roberts I tried to play a long game on Monday evening.
That is why, when his team reached the ninth Inning with an advantage of three rounds, The second game of a series of divisions of the National LeagueHe made it possible to escape Blake Trainen instead Rocks Sasaki.
If everyone were equal, it is likely that Roberts would turn to Sasaki so that he began the time. Just two weeks after he returned after his shoulder injury and was transferred to the science, converted beginner in the starting lineup became the most dominant replacement option in the club.
But, despite the fact that the 23 -year -old right -handed personality during this time became a revelation – he spent four zero in the match of the Fastball match at a speed of 100 miles per hour and an invulnerable splitter – the team still conscientiously coped with the workload of Sasaki, which included one appearance in the second game of the Wild Card series, and then one more in the first game of NLDS just a few days before.
Thus, Roberts felt confident quite confidently in Trading (a veteran-lawsuit, who survived the worst season in his career, but also a few recently improved performances) to protect the three-way pillow, which felt relatively comfortably, he left Sasaki to sit in the HYSD, despite Save's situation.
He tried to take the opportunity to give rest to his first -class pet.
“He did not pass two of three [days] In general, a lot, ”Roberts said after the game. “So I didn’t just want to put him there preemptively.” I was good with those who we had. ”
This plan, of course, almost led to catastrophic consequences. Traden refused two jogging, without removing a single repulsive. Alex Vesia needed protection to turn the ball on Brayson Stott's head and limit the damage from there. And in the end, Sasaki still entered the game to record the final.
Moving further, Roberts confirmed on Tuesday that Sasaki “is definitely the main option now” for any future conservation situations – the team will be closest to call it their direct approximation, since they can also use it in situations with a high lever before the ninth.
“Obviously, what Rocky did and continues to demonstrate was very encouraging on many fronts,” Roberts said.
However, the question remains how much the Doders will be able to saddle it until the end of the playoffs; And how delicately they will have to balance the burden, which they lay on a young pitcher who had never played at a reserve position before.
“He is not going to complete every game, it is simply impossible,” Roberts said on Tuesday. “This is what he never did. And you expect that you will spend a few more weeks.” [in the postseason]. So you have to play all these things that many people do not value. ”
The deeper the “Doders” will be held in the playoffs, the more this calculation will be.
At the moment, the team prefers Sasaki to have at least one day of rest before each exit to the street. And although Roberts did not exclude that he could use it for several days in a row, he called it the “next graduation score” for the Japanese in the offseason (which at the beginning of the season spent only eight starts in the MLB, before he first injured and missed the next four months).
“There is no guarantee what this material will be. [in a back-to-back sequence]- said Roberts, adding that any potential use of Saskai for several days in a row will require preliminary discussion with coaches for nutrition of how Sasaki looked at sessions before the game.
“I would like the rock to throw the ball every day, if it could, but it is simply impossible,” Roberts repeated. “Again, we have a lot of conversations, and then I make a decision.”
In other words, Sasaki will receive most of the possibilities of preservation in the future. But he probably will not be the only one who will engage in such situations.
Shien responds to the role of the installer
Emmeters Shien reacts after the closure of the eighth inconing against Phillis in the second game.
(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
After a promising regular season, in which he published 2.82 era in 15 matches, Dodeders hoped for Emmett Shien as a person who was preparing several halves for their besieged help building.
His first exit in the playoffs was not easy: he refused two strokes and two walks and recorded only one out in the second game of the Wild Card series against the Reds.
But on Monday evening, he returned to normal, having conducted two servings with one run to maintain the leadership of Dodders in ninth place.
The most important point in Shien’s performance (in which he left the team in seventh place before abandoning the three Max Kepler and the single rbi Turner in eighth place) came after he lost in this single race. The next were to be the repulsive left -handed people Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper. Dodgers had a weight, their best option for the left hand, which warmed up in the HYSD.
For a short moment, when Mark Pryor went to the embankment, and Shien, during a long pause, filed with his Pitchcom device, it seemed that the dooders were simply pulled so that the weight was warming.
But Roberts ultimately remained in place and allowed Shien to go to the star duo Phillis. His faith was rewarded with two authors that completed the time. Shien struck Schwarber Fastball at a speed of 97.6 miles per hour in the inner corner, which became his third largest blow in out this season. Then he forced Harper to fly to a replacement, knocking his glove with his fist and running away from the field.
“I think there are simply shown some changes that I made in comparison with the previous game. [against the Reds]- said Shien.
The biggest?
“Definitely control your emotions,” Shien admitted. “This is a majority of exit from the Communist Party. I talked with many guys about this, especially after Cincinnati, where I was not so comfortable there.”
This output of the “Reds”, of course, was the main alarm signal for the plans of the DODERSE terms of the Communist Party. Given the difficulties with which the traditional pitecrs of the team went to the playoffs, Shien was, in fact, to become an installer from the Communist Party, capable of reducing the gap from the starting pitch to the ninth.
Shien said that during this weekend, he felt that “he was trying to do too much, trying to be too accurate with myds at the corners.”
“This is not quite my game,” he said, looking back. “Therefore, I think that just returning to the approach and the plan of the game that worked for the past couple of months was a big achievement. An attempt to just go directly on them and attack in the zone.”
Roberts gave Shihan the opportunity to do this on Monday and will probably continue to contact him at a high level of levers, moving forward, possibly making Shien and Sasaki with his preferred combination to complete the last Inining of the games.
“I just felt that his things were still very good. [and that] He was not going to run away from those guys upstairs, ”Roberts said on Tuesday, allowing Shihan to meet with Schwarber and Harper (which have 14 points in NLDS with two walks and eight authors).
“I trusted him. At that moment I felt that he was the best option. And it turned out to be right.”
Trains lack “advantage”
At the other end of the confidence spectrum, Trading is located, who not only could not withdraw from the game any of the three repulsives that he encountered in the second game, but also, at least, according to Roberts, also did not look like a person confident in his business.
“Last night I simply did not see this advantage,” Roberts said on Tuesday, “but I know that I saw him many times.”
Indeed, Train was the most reliable attacker of Dodeders during their performance in the world series last year, when he counted three saves, two deductions and two victories, and he celebrated his October 2 ⅓ zero inning in the fifth game of the world series.
Another story has developed this season: Traneen stumbled upon the worst of 5.40 era in his career after passing most of the first half due to the problem with the forearm.
Despite this, Trainen entered Monday at a higher level, knocking out three repulsions in the final of the regular season, and then spent two zero matches in the Wild Card series.
Fillis, however, took advantage of his inability to perform as many blows and mistakes this year, waving only one of eight strokes, simultaneously connecting a single and two dubles (the latter – on the half -magician of Nick Castellnos against the tranquer’s corporate leg).
“I felt that he was gaining momentum before the last match, so I would check it,” Roberts said. “But there are different ways to go out into the street, successful or unsuccessful, and for me it is important how the player behaves.”
On Monday, Train did not put this flag. And whether he will fall into such a difficult situation for his next time, is still unknown.
