ARLINGTON, Texas — Can anyone in baseball turn too much pitching into not enough pitching faster than the Dodgers?
Their moves this winter prompted MLB Network to produce graphics of 10-deep starting rotations and overflowing bullpens. A month into the season, the Dodgers have parts scattered all around like a low-end body shop.
Starters Blake Snell, Clayton Kershaw and Tony Gonsolin are on the Injured List in varying states of repair. Reliever Blake Treinen just headed there with an unknown prognosis for his return.
And now, Tyler Glasnow came out of his start with lower leg cramps one pitch into the fifth inning Sunday. The game was scoreless when Glasnow left the scene and stayed that way until the Dodgers scratched out a run in the eighth inning to beat the Texas Rangers 1-0 and take two of three in the series pitting baseball’s past two World Series champions.
The Dodgers have already used minor-leaguers Landon Knack, Justin Wrobleski and Bobby Miller for spot starts this season and are planning a bullpen game in Chicago on Wednesday. An extended absence for the oft-injured Glasnow might prompt an early return for Gonsolin, who is currently scheduled to make one more rehab start in Triple-A.
Glasnow allowed baserunners in each of the first three innings Sunday but took a shutout into the fourth inning. While striking out the side, he appeared to have issues with his right leg, prompting a visit from Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and head trainer Thomas Alber. Glasnow stayed in to finish off the fourth inning with his sixth strikeout of the game.
He took the mound for the fifth and got through his warmups, delivering a 94-mph fastball for a called first strike to Jake Burger before Roberts and Albert came back out to the mound. This time, Glasnow left the game.
Glasnow also left a start last April with cramping in his right calf. He didn’t miss a start as a result.
The Dodgers’ bullpen answered the call when he left the game Sunday and kept a scoreless duel with Rangers starter Tyler Mahle going.
Mahle allowed just two hits and three walks in his seven scoreless innings. The Dodgers put runners in scoring position with two outs in the third inning, on a leadoff double by Teoscar Hernandez in the fourth, and with two outs again in the seventh, but came up empty each time.
They put the winning rally together in the eighth when Will Smith pinch-hit for Austin Barnes and led off with a single. Shohei Ohtani followed with a walk to push Smith into scoring position. Smith tagged and went to third on Mookie Betts’ fly to right, then tagged and came home to score when Freddie Freeman lofted a sacrifice fly to left field.
The relief relay of Luis Garcia, Anthony Banda, Ben Casparius, Jack Dreyer, Evan Phillips and Tanner Scott combined to allow just two hits over the final five innings.
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