2025 NLCS Game 3 Thread: Oct 16 vs. Brewers, 3p

Glasnow was pretty good, last time out. He'd better be, again.

Tyler Glasnow vs. TBD.

For the second time this series, let's start with the negative. According to Jayson Stark in The Athletic, there have been eight teams (including this year's Dodgers), since the 2000 Yankees (MLB's last repeat winner), who have been within six games of a repeat World Series Championship. And none of the other seven have made it to a repeat title:

• 2001 Yankees — one win away (lost Game 7 of the World Series)
• 2009 Phillies — two wins away (lost the World Series in six games)
• 2008 Red Sox — five wins away (lost in Game 7 of ALCS)
• 2012 Cardinals — five wins away (lost in Game 7 of NLCS)
• 2023 Astros — five wins away (lost in Game 7 of ALCS)
• 2010 Yankees — six wins away (lost in Game 6 of ALCS)
• 2021 Dodgers — six wins away (lost in Game 6 of NLCS)

Put another way, of the seven teams since 2000 that had won two games in the LCS and were vying for a repeat World Series title, five of them didn't even make it out of the LCS.

To be fair, the 2001 Yankees were the only team in that set of seven who had a 2-0 lead in the LCS--on the road, no less!--and then went on to fall short (in the World Series, to Luis Gonzalez and the Diamondbacks).

On the other hand, World Series winners in 2021-2023 (Atlanta, Houston, and Texas) all went up 2-0 in their LCS en route to a World Series Championship.

(Atlanta was also up 2-0 on the Dodgers in the 2020 NLCS, and the Dodgers stormed back to not only win the 2020 NLCS but win the 2020 World Series.)

And did you see what just happened to the Mariners last night? Up 2-0 and heading home for Game 3, the Blue Jays rolled the Mariners 13-4, with five Blue Jays hitting home runs en route to victory. Ouch.

Tyler Glasnow takes the mound tonight for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He's had two appearances in the 2025 postseason: a relief appearance in NLDS G1, where he went 1.2 IP (0 ER, 2 H, 2 BB, 2 Ks), and then a more conventional (and effective) start in NLDS G4 (6.0 IP, 0 ER 2 H, 3 BB, 8 Ks). Glasnow has gotten through six full innings in three of his eleven career postseason starts, but no further than that--which means Dave Roberts is gonna have to use the bullpen somehow tonight.

So let's look at some more stats (courtesy ESPN's Get Up from 10.15):

I'm terrified.