Five starts into his Dodgers' tenure, Jack Flaherty hasn’t met the loftiest of expectations, shown again in Wednesday's loss to Orioles.
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.
Granted, the Dodgers’ lineup — even with Freddie Freeman, who missed the game while nursing his broken right middle finger — could have bailed Flaherty out Tuesday. After Ryan O’Hearn opened the scoring on a solo home run in the second inning, they managed to erase the early deficit on a Miguel Rojas sacrifice fly in the bottom of the second and Teoscar Hernández two-out RBI single in the third. From there, however, the club wasted chances.
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