Dodgers starting pitchers draining the life out of

MILWAUKEE — First issues first: The followers in an outside stadium in Philadelphia are louder than the followers in an indoor stadium in Milwaukee. No contest.

They are respectful and actually good right here. They booed Shohei Ohtani, but half-heartedly, virtually out of obligation. In Philadelphia, they booed Ohtani relentlessly, and with hostility.

Here’s the factor, though: It didn’t matter, because the Dodgers have silenced the enemy crowd wherever they go this October. The Dodgers are undefeated on the highway in this postseason: 2-0 in Philadelphia, and now 2-0 in Milwaukee.

The Dodgers have deployed 4 silencers. In dramatic lore they’re recognized as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Snell, Yamamoto, Glasnow and Ohtani.

“It’s amazing,” Tyler Glasnow said. “It’s like a show every time you’re out there.”

The Dodgers received the World Series last yr with home runs and bullpen video games and New York Yankees foibles, but not with starting pitching. In 16 video games last October, the Dodgers had more bullpen video games (4) than high quality begins (two), and the starters posted a 5.25 earned-run average.

In eight video games this October, the Dodgers have seven high quality begins, and not coincidentally they’re 7-1. The starters have posted a 1.54 ERA, the lowest of any staff in National League historical past to play at least eight postseason video games.

“Our starting pitching this entire postseason has been incredible,” said Andrew Friedman, Dodgers president of baseball operations. “We knew it would be a strength, but this is beyond what we could have reasonably expected.

“There are a lot of different ways to win in the postseason, but this is certainly a better-quality-of-life way to do it.”

The elders of the sport say that momentum is the next day’s starting pitcher. In a sport in which most groups wrestle to determine even one ace, the Dodgers boast 4.

In the past three video games — the clincher against the Phillies and the two right here against the Brewers — the Dodgers haven’t even trailed for a full inning.

In the division sequence clincher, the Phillies scored one run in the top of an inning, but the Dodgers scored in the backside of the inning.

On Monday, the Brewers never led. On Tuesday, the Brewers had a leadoff home run in the backside of the first, but the Dodgers scored twice in the top of the second.

On Monday, as Blake Snell spun eight shutout innings, the Brewers went 0 for 1 with males in scoring place — and that at-bat was the last out of the sport. On Tuesday, as Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a full sport, the Brewers didn’t get a runner into scoring place.

That is momentum. That is also how you shut up an opposing crowd: restrict the momentum for their staff.

Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto delivers against the Brewers in the fifth inning Tuesday.

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

“I do think, with what we’ve done in Philly and in coming here, it doesn’t seem like there is much momentum,” Glasnow said.

Of the 4 aces, Glasnow and Ohtani weren’t accessible to pitch last fall as they rehabilitated accidents, and Snell was pitching for the San Francisco Giants.

In the 2021 NLCS, the Dodgers began Walker Buehler twice and Julio Urías, Max Scherzer and openers Joe Kelly and Corey Knebel once each. Scherzer couldn’t make his second scheduled start because of injury.

Said infielder-outfielder Kiké Hernández: “We’ve had some really good starting pitchers in the past, but at some point we’ve hit a roadblock through the postseason. To be this consistent for seven, eight games now, it’s been pretty impressive. In a way, it’s made things a little easier on the lineup.”

In the wild-card spherical, the Dodgers scored 18 runs in two video games against the Cincinnati Reds. Since then, they’ve 20 runs in six video games.

“We said before this postseason started, our starting pitching was going to be what carried us,” third baseman Max Muncy said. “And so far, it’s been exactly that.”

The starters began their roll in the last weeks of the common season — their ERA is 1.49 over the past 30 video games — not that Hernández a lot cared about that now.

“Regular season doesn’t matter,” he said. “We can win 300 games in the regular season.

“If we don’t win the World Series, it doesn’t matter.”

The Dodgers are two wins from a return journey to the World Series. If they will get those two wins within the next three video games, they received’t have to return to Milwaukee, the land of the great sausage race, and of the polka dancers atop the dugout.

There will not be another sport right here this season. They are type and spirited followers, even if they don’t seem to be almost as loud as the Philly Phanatics.

“That,” Glasnow said, “is the loudest place I’ve ever been.”