Jack Flaherty hasn’t been bad for the Dodgers since coming over in a blockbuster deadline-day trade last month.
But, five starts into the hometown product’s L.A. tenure, Flaherty hasn’t met the loftiest of expectations, either — by his demanding standards, or the ones needed by his short-handed team.
If the postseason started tomorrow, Flaherty would likely be the Dodgers’ Game 1 starter, given the continued absences of Tyler Glasnow and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in the club’s banged-up rotation.
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That’s why, even though Flaherty looked solid in a six-inning, three-run outing against the high-powered Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday night, it wasn’t enough to save the Dodgers from a 3-2 defeat.