Dodgers Interview: Glasnow Glad to Finally Live out his Childhood Dream
LOS ANGELES — The clincher belonged to Tyler Glasnow (at least for a while). Six scoreless innings, the crowd humming, and a lineup that kept finding leather. After the game, the right-hander talked about the dream, the work, and the small fixes that showed up when the Dodgers needed them most. Simple stuff. The kind of start that sends a clubhouse into the next round smiling.
“It means everything,” Glasnow, a local product out of Hart High School, said. “It’s been a dream of mine for a long time, not only to play for the Dodgers, but in the postseason in meaningful games, and it feels incredible.”
He didn’t hang the night on the late-afternoon shadows. “I figured it a little bit being an early game,” he said. “I’m sure that had something to do with it. I don’t know which innings specifically, but I kind of didn’t think about it too much. I just attacked them like I normally would, and it worked out.”
There was some physical noise to manage. “Probably at the end of the third or beginning of the fourth I started cramping,” he said. “I tried to put it out of my mind. It didn’t affect anything. When I got around it sometimes and I was late, it started to cramp a little more, but I didn’t think about it and it was fine.”
The stuff was crisp and sequenced with intent. “The timing of everything, tunneling, was a little bit better,” he explained. “I’d been struggling being a tad bit off, a tad bit late, and I think working with Connor and Mark and getting it back on track this last week, just moving a bit quicker, everything felt a lot more confident and aggressive in the zone.”
For a pitcher whose October ledger has had ups and downs, the new mix matters. “The biggest difference is having that slider and the two-seam,” Glasnow said. “It was a matter of locking it in today and it worked out. Everything felt good.”
His preparation had a strange cadence the past two weeks. Spot relief. A short look in Game 1. Then the ball for a start in Game 4 with the series on the line. “I kind of did the reliever role during the week,” he said. “It was a bit more higher energy, not as much throwing. I fully went in as a reliever and then after knowing Game 4 I switched it up after I pitched in Game 1. The routine is pretty similar throughout the week, just not as much volume, and being a starter for so long it was easy to switch back.”
The Dodgers’ late push leaned on more than one arm. Glasnow lit up when asked about Roki Sasaki’s three-inning close. “That’s incredible,” he said. “For what he went through in the beginning of the year, to come back, go to Triple A, and then come out and throw some of the nastiest innings I’ve ever seen, it shows how strong he is and how much of a competitor he is. It didn’t seem like anything fazed him. He was throwing strikes, super aggressive, and it’s extremely impressive. We’ll need him for the rest of the season.”
The performance matched the moment and the plan. Aggressive in the zone. Fastball lanes that opened the slider. A two-seamer that bent bats and set up chase. “Just attacked them like I normally would,” Glasnow said. “Timing and tunneling were better, and I felt more confident.”
Six zeros tell the rest. The Dodgers asked for a tone-setter and got one. “It feels incredible,” he said once more, a little smile creeping in. “Meaningful games, postseason, Dodgers. That’s the dream.”
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