“It was amazing. I am pretty excited, guys are starting to smell the postseason, and you can see the intensity, the focus, and they played tonight like it was a postseason, and we got some good pitching performances.” Dave Roberts said that after the Dodgers’ win over the Mariners, the bullpen would win the division. However, in Game 1 of the Wild Card against the Reds, the bullpen was anything but quiet.

The Dodgers were ahead 10–2 after Blake Snell pitched seven strong innings, giving up only two runs and striking out nine batters. But the eighth inning got heated when three relievers—Alex Vesia, Edgardo Henriquez, and Jack Dreyer—gave up three runs, walked four batters, loaded the bases twice, and forced Roberts to bring in Blake Treinen to put an end to the threat. Yes, the Dodgers

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