In the NLCS, the Dodgers' starting pitching offered LA fans the incredible luxury of barely having to worry about the roster's greatest weakness: the bullpen.
Blake Snell threw eight shutout innings, Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a complete game, and Tyler Glasnow and Shohei Ohtani both went six innings. The bullpen still gave fans some pause after Snell's and Glasnow's outings, but they held it together enough to help the Dodgers to a sweep vs the Brewers.
Relievers have become an afterthought in the Dodgers' postseason plan. Only four out of nine relievers on the NLCS roster pitched in the series at all — Alex Vesia, Blake Treinen, Anthony Banda, and Roki Sasaki — and three out of the four were almost perfect.