Column: Don’t overthink it, Dodgers. Game 5 should be another bullpen game

Ryan Brasier and seven other pitchers helped the Dodgers navigate an 8-0 victory in Game 4 of the NLDS at Petco Park on Wednesday. SAN DIEGO —

This worked, and nothing else has. They might as well run it back.

The Dodgers have to call on their surprise ace once again to save their season.

That’s not Yoshinobu Yamamoto. That’s not Jack Flaherty.

That’s TBD — to be determined.

For the Dodgers, the deciding game of their National League Division Series against the San Diego Padres on Friday should be a bullpen game.

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