LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers are sticking with the same pitching rotation order for the World Series that worked wonders for them in the National League Championship Series. Blake Snell will start Game 1 of the Fall Classic on Friday night, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto will start Game 2 on Saturday.
“Then we’ll kind of see in Game 3 and Game 4,” manager Dave Roberts said Tuesday on a conference call.
Roberts later said he hasn’t yet decided whether Shohei Ohtani will start Game 3 or Game 4. Tyler Glasnow would start the other game. During the NLCS, Glasnow started Game 3 and Ohtani in Game 4.
The schedule format of the World Series mirrors that of the League Championship round, with potentially seven games over nine days in a 2-3-2 format. Snell gets Game 1 because he’d be available to start aga