Last October the Dodgers had three starting pitchers, one of whom with a 5.38 ERA that very accurately described his season. But they rode their deepest postseason bullpen of this extended run all the way to a championship.

This year the script has been flipped, with the Dodgers stopping their annual tradition of simply running out of healthy starters. Less than two weeks before the postseason begins, the Dodgers have six healthy and exceedingly productive starters. But the bullpen has been terrible of late.

The Dodgers held leads in each of the first two games against the Phillies, and even came back to tie after blowing leads on both Monday and Tuesday. But the bullpen had other ideas.

Seven of nine relievers were used on Monday and/or Tuesday, and six of them allowed home runs. The o

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