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 9u2154 innings over the course of five World Series games with relief efforts from David Price, Chris Sale and Nathan Eovaldi.