‘The bullpen use in the early seasons was very concerning. Even the minor leagues kept tabs from the team’s Triple A Oklahoma City affiliate.
That’s why he decided to give the Dodgers a terrible and necessary inning when he took the mound following a call to the majors on Tuesday night.
“Even when you’re in OKC, you’re still following the big league club,” Sauer said. “And I knew there was a lot of bullpen used.”
In fact, when they entered Tuesday, the other teams relied less on bailouts than the Dodgers. Their 126 innings of bullpen were the farthest in the majors thanks to the ineffectiveness of injuries and starting rotations.
Nevertheless, the Dodgers had no choice but to roll out their second bullpen game in opening month. Only this time they were able to separate from their most important weapons.
Instead, on the Miami Marlins, Sauer came to rescue in five innings of relief, offering a length type that often escapes the Dodgers’ starter.
“I had a goal of at least five innings,” said Sauer, a 26-year-old right-hander who won his first major league victory. “() Help the boys help a little with the “pen.” ”
As pitching injuries pile up, the bullpen is tense to compensate.
Only 10 teams that went over 110 innings from the bailouts welcomed the Dodgers with more than 13 innings to enter Tuesday. There were no more than four at the other clubs.
“Arguably the most embarrassing is Major League Baseball, leading the bullpen innings,” manager Dave Roberts said Monday after Tyler Glasnow became the latest member of the first staff member to land on the injured list.
“That’s where my head is,” added Roberts.
That’s not an easy task in the coming weeks. Starting Friday, the Dodgers will play 19 games in 20 days. And along with Illinois’ Glasnow and Blake’s Snell, they start it with four healthy starters on the active roster.
“We thought the starters would be a strength position for us from a workload perspective. Unfortunately, we are leading all baseball in the bailiff innings,” pitching coach Mark Mark said Tuesday. “It’s a good thing sometimes, but earlier this year, it probably isn’t.”
In particular, they combine 82 innings in tough World Series runs, not after what the bailers did in October last year.
“Everyone really lifted something heavy,” Prior said.
And the short offseason gave them so much time to recover. Evan Phillips and Michael Kopech both began their seasons in the IL and were injured in the playoffs. While Phillips returned, another important bailout, Blake Trainen, descended due to tension in his forearm.
The Dodgers chose the type of bullpen game strategy they frequently used last October, making it seemingly difficult on Tuesday.
But then, with an unexpected twist, Sauer was able to provide the right timing grace.
After rookie left-handed Jack Dreyer defeated the first two innings, Sauer found the groove on his 78-pitch outing after Tescar Hernandez accidentally played the ball on the right field. He gave up one run with five hits. He recorded four strikeouts. And most importantly, he achieved his five-inning goal.
“I can’t say enough about his performance,” Roberts said. “We needed it all because of our ‘why the pen was.’
Also, the Dodgers (20-10) were able to go to work at the plate, where they set the best season on runs, with hits (18) and walks (8) towards their most biased victory.
Shohei Ohtani led on a home run, the seventh of the season and the first since returning from his father’s list last week.
Hernandez attacked a defensive mistake with two run-scoring doubles with a 29 run-scoring double, tied the 29-year-old New York Yankees Judge Aaron, the 29-year-old major and most RBI.
Mookie Betts has raised his batting average to .240 as he scored a two-run single as part of his two-hit performance, continuing to try to snap out of the opening slump.
And Sandy Alcantara, the starter of Cy Young Winning Marlins, never found his footing.
“It looks like you’re going for a walk these days, beating starters like a team, creating stressful innings and doing walks. “This is something we can potentially do. You give yourself a chance to fight when you can take those at-bats.”
The game got out of hand, so the Dodgers didn’t even have to use real pitchers in the nine innings. Instead, after low-leverage right-hander Luis Garcia pitched the eighth, utility man Quique Hernandez took the mound for the final three outs, a plastic “pitching helmet” covering his cap.
“It was a big deal to get away from other leverage,” Roberts said.
There’s not only the finale of the Wednesday series, but also the taxable sex of the schedule to follow.
