SAN DIEGO —
It took until the final hours before Tuesday’s trade deadline, but the Dodgers finally landed the impact pitcher they so desperately coveted.
In a deadline day deal with the Detroit Tigers, the Dodgers acquired veteran starter Jack Flaherty, according to a person with knowledge of the situation but unauthorized to speak publicly — adding the 28-year-old right-hander and Harvard-Westlake product to a short-handed pitching staff in need of a frontline reinforcement.
In Flaherty, the Dodgers hope they have found it.
The eight-year veteran is 7-5 this season with a 2.95 ERA, which would be his lowest in a season since receiving Cy Young Award votes in 2019. He has 133 strikeouts in 106 ⅔ innings, finding renewed success this year with his fastball, curveball, slider pitch mix. And for the Dodgers, he represents a legitimate option to start postseason games — possibly featuring alongside Tyler Glasnow, Gavin Stone and Yoshinobu Yamamoto (if he regains health and form after missing the last two months with a shoulder injury) in a potential playoff rotation.
ESPN first reported the trade.
This is a developing story and will be updated.