LOS ANGELES >> He actually was talking about his starting pitchers, but Dave Roberts’ words — much like his shuffling roster of players this season — worked well in multiple situations.
“There’s not been really one formula,” the Dodgers’ manager said before Game 3 of the National League Championship Series, “for us to win the baseball games that we’ve won.”
So Tuesday, Roberts’ team used the offense of two guys who had been slumping worse than the relevance of the pay phone to beat a pitcher the Dodgers once found impossible to hit at all.
Corey Seager’s RBI single and Yasmani Grandal’s two-run homer gave the Dodgers an enormous early lead, allowing Rich Hill to pitch six relatively stress-free innings and the bullpen to finish up for a 6-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs.