LOS ANGELES — If it all really was a grand master plan to have their four aces pitching at the top of their game in October, that was some real galaxy brain-level thinking.

The Dodgers made Blake Snell their No. 1 priority last offseason and signed him to a five-year, $182 million contract – then kept him on the injured list for four months, starting him just 11 times in the regular season.

They stashed Tyler Glasnow on the IL for 2½ months as well, getting just 90 innings from him in the regular season. And they took a drip-drip-drip approach to Shohei Ohtani’s return to the mound, limiting him to just 47 innings during the regular season even when they certainly could have used more.

And Yoshinobu Yamamoto – here’s a twist – didn’t miss a start. The Dodgers stayed committed to givin

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