LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers manager Don Mattingly wouldn't confirm Saturday's starting pitcher, but it looks like Brandon Beachy is no longer an option. Zach Lee is a candidate, but even with Lee the Dodgers could opt for a bullpen game against the Brewers.
Though it would in theory be a bullpen game in name only, with a relief pitcher starting, going one or two innings, followed by four or five innings from the "starter." The Dodgers, for instance, won't plan for a series of one- or two-inning stints from their pitchers.