Today is a Risky day

Because you have another game tomorrow.

Throw your high leverage guys again. And you risk Yankees seeing them for the 3-4 game in a row. Arm fatigue and no availability for game 5 tomorrow. This is the worst time for a bullpen game as you trash two days

You have 10 relief pitchers to get 27 outs. Assuming everyone is available. And with hit history graterol is shaky. If I am la I use brustar today and then he reaggravates his injury. And Phillips is activated for tomorrow and rest of series.

So today you have brasier. Honeywell casperius And knack. Not exactly intimidating. But you have to get 4-5 innings out of them and figure a way to have vesia and Banda facing Soto. I don’t think you can afford any of this vesia or Banda to one hitter to finish the inning stuff. You probably also need to hold one of those first four for later in case of extra innings.

So 3 guys need to go 4-5. Each needs to record 4-5 outs and that’s asking a bit. Probably means each guy if it goes well pitches to 6 guys. And if not 6-7 and less than 4-5 outs.

At that point you have treinan. Kopech banda vesia a shaky graterol and Hudson. 6 guys to get you 4-5 innings. 4 would be a lot nicer than 5 because it allows you to have one guy be off. At this point NY has seen all these guys. Advantage yanks. Also at this point they’ve all been used a lot. Advantage nY again

And you have a game tomorrow so anyone who has thrown more than 20-25 pitches today or a combined 35 between yesterday and today is likely out tomorrow. So you could be playing a double or nothing game today with Cole on the mound tomorrow.

Want to know what solves this? 10 runs. The dodger offense breaking out for the first time in the series. Take away the lightning in the bottle game ender and ls has scored 2 4 and 4 runs. That won’t normally win you 3 games. Wife was bored last night with all the non scoring. La averaged about 8.5 runs in the Mets. No one but Freddie is alive right now. Freeman has 3 hr and 7 of the dodger 14 rbi. Think he has 4-5 of their runs scored. So la is due for a breakout game and today would be a great time to get one.

If I’m an optimist I see that this game could be an 8-5 messy offensive back and forth game. Not over till the last out.