After losing to the Padres in last year's NLDS, it is unlikely the 100-win Dodgers will take the the 84-win Diamondbacks lightly.
A year ago, the hosted in the postseason a National League West foe they had crushed all season, a Wild Card entrant who won 22 fewer games. All of that meant little to the , who ousted the Dodgers in four games in the National League Division Series. So it is unlikely the 100-win Dodgers will take these coming games with the 84-win lightly. Advertisement This version of the Dodgers does not exactly resemble the juggernauts of recent vintage.
22 ERA with decent peripherals — but he wasn’t great in the Wild Card round. They probably won’t want to use any of their other starters. Other than ERA, favor the Arizona trio, and given Kershaw’s postseason history — you — the nod probably goes to the Diamondbacks’ rotation on the strength of their steady twosome. Paring the Diamondbacks bullpen down to their best four, and looking at September numbers, the pens .
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