SAN DIEGO — It would be difficult to describe the Dodgers’ outlook going into Game 4 of the NLDS as anything other than bleak. San Diego took all the momentum in the series by winning Game 2 and carried that into their own building to win a pivotal Game 3. After taking haymaker after haymaker the previous two games, the light in this Los Angeles team was beginning to dim.
Making matters worse, in a series in which they lack quality starting pitching, it was their bullpen going up against one of the league’s best starters in Dylan Cease to determine if the Dodgers would have a chance to try to extend their season at home in Game 5 or watch their division rivals celebrate sending them packing.