PHILADELPHIA — For the better part of almost two months, the Dodgers have been a .500 team.
And the biggest problem in that time — a lack of reliable starting pitching from an injury-plagued, rookie-reliant rotation — only seems to get worse with each passing day.
This offseason, the Dodgers thought they had fixed their recent starting pitching woes. They traded for Tyler Glasnow. They signed Yoshinobu Yamamoto. They spent nearly half-a-billion dollars trying to bolster both the top of their rotation, and the depth options behind it.
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This week, however, in a series sweep against the Philadelphia Phillies that was cemented with a 5-1 loss Thursday, it’s clear the club’s rotation is an area of concern again.