{"id":277112,"date":"2025-10-04T12:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T12:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/277112\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T12:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T12:23:09","slug":"letters-dodgers-suddenly-a-formidable-facsimile-of-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/277112\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: Dodgers suddenly a formidable facsimile of themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix&#8221;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>After two months, the Dodgers have found a closer, in the rookie from Japan. <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/dodgers\/story\/2025-10-02\/dodgers-roki-sasaki-closer-bullpen-mlb-postseason\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roki Sasaki mowed down<\/a> the Reds in order in the ninth inning. Now, the Dodgers have a facsimile of a bullpen as they play the Phillies.<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Muramatsu<br \/>Cerritos<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Hern\u00e1ndez commented on the Dodgers\u2019 unreliable bullpen. The Dodgers have their closer right in front of their big Blue nose: Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez. No one can throw a 45-mph fastball like Kik\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Brent Montgomery<br \/>Long Beach<\/p>\n<p>All bullpen issues aside, after brushing aside the Reds, the Dodgers are looking mighty formidable. So my big L.A. fan brother-in-law asks me, \u201cWould YOU want to have to play the Dodgers ?\u201d Me: \u201cWith a minimum MLB salary of $760,000, of course I would!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Joe Kevany<br \/>Mount Washington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix&#8221;&gt; After two months, the Dodgers have found a closer, in the rookie from Japan. Roki Sasaki&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":277113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[143327,1582,276,143326,7480,2442,143325,24255,1910,143324,6539,2961,19945,224,2444,5337,46750,73732,7138,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-277112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-arte-moreno","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-class-act","12":"tag-clayton-kershaw","13":"tag-dodgers","14":"tag-formidable-facsimile","15":"tag-front","16":"tag-game","17":"tag-great-head-coach","18":"tag-kike-hernandez","19":"tag-la","20":"tag-letter","21":"tag-los-angeles","22":"tag-los-angeles-times","23":"tag-losangeles","24":"tag-owner","25":"tag-pete-carroll","26":"tag-rams","27":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115315880989159581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}