Alexander: Facing elimination, Dodgers impose their will on Padres in Game 4 of NLDS

SAN DIEGO — Consider, for a moment, what the possibilities might have been.

Imagine that the Dodgers hadn’t lost what amounts to an additional starting rotation-plus worth of pitchers, in what has been a baseball-wide siege of arm/elbow/shoulder injuries but one that hit them particularly hard. What would their playoff rotation have looked like?

Maybe Tyler Glasnow as the ace, a fully functional Yoshinobu Yamamoto (rather than one still coming back from a triceps injury) as a solid Game 2 starter...