On the morning of Game 4 of a 2013 National League division series, up two games to one against Atlanta, the Dodgers maintained that trade-deadline rental Ricky Nolasco would be their starting pitcher. After noon, they announced they’d deploy their ace on short rest instead, and Clayton Kershaw rammed them into the next round.
Just before Game 3 of a 2014 division series, the Dodgers announced that Kershaw would start the next day’s Game 4, not the previously announced Dan Haren. They then admitted Kershaw had been scheduled all along.