None of this was convincing. None of this answered the longstanding questions about them. None of this felt like persuasive evidence for why they wouldn't crash and burn in the postseason as they have in each of the previous three years.
One of the three pitchers who faced the Rockies this weekend - Stone, Yoshinobu Yamamoto or Walker Buehler - will likely have to establish himself as the No. 2 starter before October.
Stone, 25, is the most consistent but the least experienced. Yamamoto is 5-1 with a 2.72 earned-run average over his last seven starts but pitched only once a week in Japan.
"Sitting here, I think our priority is to make sure Yoshi stays on his sort of extra rest, so I don't see that changing, even through October," Roberts said.
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