DETROIT -- The scream from Jack Flaherty after his 95th and final pitch Wednesday night would’ve rivaled a lot of Tarik Skubal end-of-inning outbursts. He had sent Kyle Manzardo flailing at a 94 mph fastball to strand the bases loaded in the fifth inning, and he’d kept his team in the game.

It wasn’t just the pent-up frustration of a front-line pitcher who had grinded through five innings of one-run ball despite four walks, albeit one an intentional pass to José Ramírez ahead of Manzardo’s strikeout. It was the sound of redemption for a pitcher who started the clinching game for the Dodgers in last year’s World Series but whose postseason role appeared in flux after an up-and-down summer of stingy starts and sputtering slogs.

If there was any question about Flaherty’s rotation spot in

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