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"I think he's given some information to our pitching coaches," said Phillies manager Rob Thompson. "He's a winner. It's like having [Zach Wheeler] around. He's a winner. He has that aura about him. "We're going to use him out of the pen in this series. Whether it's for length or for one inning, that's to be seen. Yeah, he's a great teammate. He's in the middle of everything in that clubhouse. And he's a good guy to have around. And he's got a lot of talent."

It was Glasnow's first career relief appearance in the postseason and he enjoyed getting to experience a different side of pitching, via Bill Plunkett of the Southern California News Group: "Definitely different. I was in the bathroom and the phone rang and they yelled my name. I was like, 'Here we go.' I warmed up and it was kind of fun."

"I trust him. It was his first kind of real crack at kind of late leverage," Roberts said. "He wasn't sharp, but I believe in him. I really do. "And I think for me to think that he can get through Benson, although he had count leverage, to then feel like he can get through McLain, he would have been over 30 pitches. I just didn't think his stuff was as sharp."

The Los Angeles Dodgers advanced past the National League Wild Card Series after defeating the Cincinnati Reds in Game 2 on Wednesday. The Dodgers punched their ticket to the NL Division Series with an 8-4 victory over the Reds at Dodger Stadium. After the final out landed in Mookie Betts' glove and the team lined up for postgame handshakes, the Dodgers posed on the infield grass for a team photo wearing their new October Baseball shirts.

Despite facing the prospect of playing an extra round this October, the Dodgers generally managed to map out their starting rotation to give them plenty of flexibility heading into the playoffs. Shohei Ohtani's last two starts of the season came one week apart and on a Tuesday, and Blake Snell and Yoshinobu Yamamoto both pitched in time to be available for the NL Wild Card.

We've been playing really good baseball here in the last couple of weeks. I feel like sometimes when these long seasons come to a point where a lot of people are trying to find their own ways to figure themselves out, and we were worrying too much about the personal, the personal stats and the personal at-bats and all that. I feel like right now, we're playing way better baseball, and I think the team is starting to play up a little bit better, and it happened at the right time, because we'll be playing in October here really soon, and we're looking forward to continue to do that.

Heaney pitched two innings and allowed a three-run home run in what's going to be his lone appearance for the Dodgers in 2025. While with the Comets, the southpaw pitched to a 0.90 ERA in four starts. Heaney made three consecutive scoreless starts before allowing one run in two innings on Sept. 21. He collected 13 strikeouts across 10 innings pitched in his four starts for Oklahoma City.