LOS ANGELES — Jack Flaherty will begin for the Los Angeles Dodgers within the World Sequence opener in opposition to the New York Yankees.
The precise-hander opposes Gerrit Cole on Friday night time at Dodger Stadium in a matchup of space natives.
Flaherty is from close by Burbank and attended highschool at Harvard-Westlake in Los Angeles. Cole is from Tustin in Orange County and pitched at UCLA.
“Clearly, Jack’s been actually good for us,” Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts mentioned Tuesday on a Zoom name with media. “The expertise, the best way to navigate an outing, he is seen all of it.”
Proper-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto — the $325 million rookie — will begin Recreation 2 on Saturday, Roberts introduced, as effectively. And the supervisor added there shall be a bullpen sport in the course of the best-of-seven collection, in some unspecified time in the future.
Flaherty has began 3 times in these playoffs with a 7.04 ERA. He struggled in his most up-to-date begin in opposition to the New York Mets in Recreation 5 of the NL Championship Sequence, giving up eight earned runs and 4 walks in three innings.
Flaherty had dominated in Recreation 1 in opposition to the Mets, permitting two hits over seven innings.
He joined the Dodgers on the July commerce deadline from Detroit.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
