Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts spoke about the role Roki Sasaki will have during the Dodgers’ National League Championship Series matchup against the Milwaukee Brewers.
Sasaki has taken the postseason by storm, posting 5.1 scoreless innings through the first four postseason appearances of his career. The Dodgers have begun trusting him in high-leverage situations, even sending him out for three innings against the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLDS.
Roberts, however, doesn’t want to send him out for more than an inning if he can help it.
“Perfect world, one inning, because there’s a cost to two innings or certainly three innings as far as on the backside of that, right?