{"id":98372,"date":"2020-10-27T05:05:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T02:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/walker-buehler-worth-dodgers-consideration-for-game-6\/"},"modified":"2020-10-27T05:05:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T02:05:13","slug":"walker-buehler-worth-dodgers-consideration-for-game-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/walker-buehler-worth-dodgers-consideration-for-game-6\/","title":{"rendered":"#Walker Buehler worth Dodgers’ consideration for Game 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Walker Buehler worth Dodgers’ consideration for Game<\/a> 6<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 To Beckett, or not to Beckett?<\/p>\n

That is the question hovering over the Dodgers as they try to end their 832-fortnight and odd days drought without a championship. They choose to not Beckett, instead calling upon rookie Tony Gonsolin to eliminate the pesky Rays in World Series<\/a> Game 6 on Tuesday night at Globe Life Field.<\/p>\n

To Beckett, as those who recall the 2003 World Series know, is to use your best starting pitching option on three days\u2019 rest in Game 6 when owning a 3-2 edge (yes, it\u2019s very specific). That\u2019s what the Marlins, managed by the maverick Jack McKeon, did when they turned back to their Game 3 starter Josh Beckett, whose short-rested, five-hit shutout buried those Yankees and turned the 72-year-old McKeon into a South Florida folk hero.<\/p>\n

Playing the 2020 Dodgers role of Beckett (who coincidentally finished his career as a Dodger) is Walker Buehler, who threw a six-inning gem to defeat the Rays in Game 3 Friday night. And who, instead of making his first career start on three days\u2019 rest, will be ready to start Wednesday night\u2019s Game 7 if necessary.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a tough call. And it\u2019s one that instantly becomes a huge part of this lively series\u2019 storyline.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re putting yourself in a situation where, after winning a game [5] to put him in a tougher situation, there\u2019s already guaranteed a Game 7,\u201d Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Monday, as both sides mostly rested (a few guys from both teams showed up to get in some work). \u201cIt just makes sense for Walker. He hasn\u2019t done it. There\u2019s a blister component that we\u2019ve dealt with that it just brings back more into play without the extra day. So we thought it through.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s think it through out loud, shall we? No one will dispute that, in a vacuum, Buehler is a superior pitcher to Gonsolin, who took the loss in Game 2 when he allowed a run in 1 \u00b9\/\u2083 innings as the Dodgers\u2019 opener. Buehler\u2019s complete lack of experience throwing on short rest shouldn\u2019t automatically disqualify him from trying it now. After all, Yankees ace Gerrit Cole had never tried it until American League Division Series Game 5 against these Rays, and he performed very well, allowing only one run in 5 \u00b9\/\u2083 innings.<\/p>\n

Now, the blister, an ongoing Buehler issue this fall, that\u2019s no small thing. That very well could be the determining factor.<\/p>\n

If Gonsolin \u2014 who, Roberts said, will go as a traditional starter, not an opener \u2014 does his job, then no harm, no foul, start another party in Los Angeles, where the great LeBron James\u2019 Lakers just captured the NBA championship earlier this month. If Gonsolin falters while his Rays counterpart, Blake Snell, shoves but Buehler bests Charlie Morton for a second time in Game 7? Again, all good in the Dodger Land hood.<\/p>\n

A Game 6 Rays win naturally reduces the Dodgers\u2019 room for error and turns up the heat on Roberts and the favorites. It makes sense in theory to have Buehler in that spot, with Game 4 starter Julio Urias and franchise icon Clayton Kershaw (who won Games 1 and 5) ready to help out of the bullpen. Theory means nothing, however, when you\u2019re talking about one game.<\/p>\n

You can defend the Dodgers\u2019 process here, you can poke some holes in it. It doesn\u2019t matter. When you\u2019re a huge-market club attempting to win your first title since 1988, and you\u2019re one win away, only the results matter. Bad results will prompt a dissection of what went wrong.<\/p>\n

Gonsolin, who worked mostly as a traditional starter from July through September, said, \u201cIt feels like I\u2019m back on a normal routine like I was all season. Try not to put more pressure on myself than there already is, try to go out there and throw the ball to the best of my ability.\u201d<\/p>\n

A baseball-loving city hopes that best is good enough. And stands ready to wonder, if things don\u2019t turn out the way they want, whether another path would\u2019ve led to victory.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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