Can the Dodgers overcome a pitching plan that beat them in 2018 World Series?

WASHINGTON -- The Los Angeles Dodgers weren't necessarily expecting Max Scherzer to jog out of the bullpen and pitch in relief Friday night in their most recent game in the MLB playoffs -- but they weren't necessarily surprised by it, either.

"Boston showed us last year," Max Muncy, among the Dodgers' most feared hitters, said. "If a guy's not starting, that doesn't mean he's not going to pitch that day."

Barely 11 months earlier, the Boston Red Sox made up for a flawed bullpen by filling a combined 9\u2154 innings over the course of five World Series games with relief efforts from David Price, Chris Sale and Nathan Eovaldi. Unburdened by the thought of facing the same hitters multiple times…