Wrobleski’s scoreless line included an inherited run on Bauers’ soft single

Jake Bauers lined Justin Wrobleski’s 96.0-mph four-seamer into center with a 1–1 count and two inherited runners aboard. The ball left the bat at 73.5 mph, yet Brice Turang scored to give Milwaukee a 7–4 lead in the eighth inning.

Wrobleski then retired Christian Yelich on a lineout and Garrett Mitchell on a swinging strikeout. His final line was two outs, one hit, no walks, no runs and one strikeout on 11 pitches in the Dodgers’ NLCS Game 2 loss on October 12.

The zero describes which pitcher owned the scoring runner. Turang had reached against Edgardo Henriquez, so the run remained charged to him. Wrobleski’s appearance nevertheless included the RBI single, followed by two outs that prevented the remaining runners from scoring.

A familiar distribution in a short relief assignment

Wrobleski threw five four-seamers, four sliders, one sinker and one sweeper. His role-matched regular-season baseline contains 192 pitches in six Dodgers relief appearances, March 30 through September 27. The four-seam share was 45.8% in that sample, almost identical to Game 2’s 45.5%; the slider moved from 33.9% to 36.4%.

His full regular season contained 2,137 pitches in 28 appearances, mainly as a starter. That larger sample provides context for how small the relief comparison is, while the six relief outings keep the role aligned. Eleven pitches against three hitters cannot establish a new selection pattern.

The fastball averaged 96.6 mph, compared with 95.6 in the relief baseline, and the slider 88.5 against 87.6. He generated one miss in seven swing attempts and two called strikes. Those counts distinguish the strikeout finish from an appearance that otherwise depended on contact outcomes.

A long final at-bat completed the remaining work

Bauers began by taking a sinker high, then a slider for a strike before contacting the fastball. An error charged to center fielder Andy Pages allowed additional advancement on the single. The error remains part of the sequence, separate from the measured quality of the initial contact.

Yelich lined out on the next pitch. Mitchell then required seven pitches, including three ordinary two-strike fouls, before striking out swinging. That final confrontation accounted for most of Wrobleski’s workload and stranded Bauers and William Contreras.

Neither of the two measured contacts reached 95 mph; they averaged 76.6 mph. The inherited-run outcome therefore does not support a story built around overpowering contact. The more precise account is a softly hit scoring single, a fielding error and two subsequent outs. Another relief appearance would test his finishes across a larger swing sample without mistaking run ownership for an absence of a scoring event.