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Dave Roberts looms as Dodgers’ unlikely playoff X-factor

Manager Dave Roberts enters another postseason run with the Los Angeles Dodgers holding a vast experience advantage over his managerial peers, having already accumulated fifty-nine playoff victories and managed one hundred seventeen October games across eleven consecutive years. With a strong starting rotation featuring pitchers like Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tarik Skubal, Blake Snell, and Tyler Glasnow alongside relievers Tanner Scott and Roki Sasaki, Roberts will need to carefully orchestrate innings while managing a lineup that has shown inconsistency.

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