Dodgers' bullpen fails to back up Buehler in walkoff win by Rockies
by Andy McCullough, Los Angeles Times
Aug 12, 2018
3 minutes
DENVER - The circumstances of a baseball season wrench a bullpen into misalignment. Across 162 games, a team often competes with its relief corps at less than full strength. Pitchers get injured. They require days off. Freak injuries or things like the recurrence of Kenley Jansen's heart condition can happen.
And yet, the circumstances of a baseball season do not force teams to do what the Dodgers did in the ninth inning Saturday night at Coors Field. Protecting a two-run lead and scrambling to match up against the
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