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Tom Verducci

The Future Is Now: Dodgers' Power Pitchers Putting on Postseason Clinic

At age 36, Dodgers pitcher Blake Treinen became the third-oldest reliever to save a winner-take-all game. | Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images

State of the art these days could mean AI. It could mean an electric motor that doesn’t cause range anxiety. It could mean a toaster with a “touch screen interface.” Yeah, that’s actually a thing. In baseball, it means how the Los Angeles Dodgers sent their bitter rivals, the San Diego Padres, home for the winter.

State of the art means a pitching performance that was both historic and, if you happen to work in MLB headquarters, scary.

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