LOS ANGELES — Teams that open the playoffs with a best-of-three wild-card series are usually at a disadvantage because they have to burn their best two or three starting pitchers to advance, leaving the back end of their rotation to start the first two or three games of a best-of-five division series.

Not the Dodgers, who could start Shohei Ohtani, Blake Snell and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in a National League wild-card series next week and still have Tyler Glasnow, Clayton Kershaw and Emmet Sheehan available for the first two or three games of a division series.

“We’ve got our rotation set through the coming week, and we have the options to kind of pivot in any way we want,” manager Dave Roberts said before Sunday’s game. “When you have essentially five or six guys that you trust … we’re in as

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