It was nearly midnight. Only one player remained in the Dodgers clubhouse. It was a relief pitcher. Of course it was.
It was Wednesday and he had pitched well, but another guy in the bullpen had failed again. It was the latest in a full week’s worth of late-inning implosions, and the burden was building.
“We know we’re under the microscope,’’ Alexander said. “We know we’re the one thing that everyone is looking at.’’
Everyone is looking, except when everyone is hiding their eyes. In the wake of Kenley Jansen’s temporarily disabling heart condition, the depleted Dodgers bullpen has become the focal point of a fear larger than the giant Jansen himself.