LOS ANGELES -- Every deck of cards has a full set, but it's rare within a Major League rotation: four aces.
Blake Snell , Yoshinobu Yamamoto , Tyler Glasnow and Shohei Ohtani . It's the hand of a lifetime for the Dodgers, who have played it to a remarkable run of pitching dominance this postseason.
Last year, the Dodgers won the World Series in spite of their shoestring rotation. This year, their four starting pitchers have been the driving force behind their bid to become the first team in a quarter century to defend its title.
"We knew going into October that the strength of this club was going to be our starters," president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said after the NLCS. "But for them to do what they did eclipsed even our expectations. It was incredible theater t