Dodgers reliever Blake Treinen removes the stress from pressure-packed moments
LA TimesIn an age when everything on a baseball field can be quantified and culled into scouting reports that reveal the strengths, weaknesses and tendencies of pitchers and hitters, it’s almost refreshing to come across an old-school approach like that of Dodgers reliever Blake Treinen. “The biggest thing for me is just getting ahead of guys, honestly,” said Treinen, a 36-year-old right-hander whose late-season dominance helped fuel the team’s run to the National League Championship Series against the New York Mets. Treinen then threw 3⅔ scoreless innings over three games in the division series win over the San Diego Padres, including a 39-pitch, five-out save in Game 1 and a 1-2-3 ninth inning in Friday night’s 2-0 series-clinching Game 5 victory, after which his teammates mobbed him on the mound. “If you’re talking about a series MVP,” Roberts said, “it’s our bullpen, clearly.” It took several months for Treinen, who missed most of the 2022 season because of a shoulder injury and all of 2023 after undergoing surgery to repair rotator-cuff and labrum tears, to regain the form that made him a key contributor to the Dodgers’ 2020 World Series-winning team and one of baseball’s best setup men in 2021. Batting averages are a lot better on 1-0 and 2-0 counts than they are on 0-1 and 0-2 counts.” Treinen’s dominance, coupled with the trade-deadline acquisition of hard-throwing right-hander Michael Kopech and Evan Phillips’ return to form after a brutal July, has armed Roberts with the kind of three-headed relief monster the Royals had when they rode Greg Holland, Wade Davis and Kelvin Herrera to a World Series title in 2015.
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