It’s a miracle that Hyun-Jin Ryu is pitching at all

The entire stadium chanted the starting pitcher's name in unison: "Ry-u! Ry-u!"Blue towels waved furiously in the background. The game, and the crowd, belonged to Hyun-Jin Ryu, who finished the at-bat by uncorking a low 91-mph fastball. Ender Inciarte swung and missed.

The miracle wasn't the seven scoreless innings Ryu pitched Thursday in the Dodgers' postseason opener, a 6-0 victory over the Atlanta Braves in Game 1 of their National League Division Series. The miracle was that he was pitching at all at this stage of the year.

Ryu was four years removed from his last postseason appearance. In the season that followed that 2014 division series loss, the left-hander was diagnosed with a torn…