I think you hope Priester OR Quintana can give you 3 innings and then bullpen Game #1. Leaving the other fresh for Game #3. Our best pitchers are the relief guys. They need to all pitch the first two games and then get rest on the travel day.
We cannot play this straight up with the starters. Ours aren’t that good and we won’t win the series. Murphy is going to have to pull the right strings and be bold to win it.
I think we also need someone on the roster to be a literal waste of space and take one to the chest. The Dodgers are good and one of these games they are probably going to obliterate our pitching early and someone will just have to take one for the team to save pitching.
But the end of the day if we gotta burn Quintana and Priester in the first two games and have neither for Game #3 you gotta do it. We can’t afford to go to LA down two games…so if we gotta empty the pitching to find a way to win one of the first two…gotta do it.
Gotta win one at home, gotta win one LA, and just find a way to get the series back to Milwaukee.