The teams who opened the season together in South Korea seemed to be “on a collision course” all year, and now they will square off in a best-of-five series for the third time in five years.

The switch makes Yoshinobu Yamamoto available for a potential Game 5 on an extra day of rest as he’s had for every outing this season, with Andrew Friedman saying the moves are about creating

The Dodgers will start Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Game 1 of the NLDS against the Padres instead of Jack Flaherty in an effort to give them more flexibility.