Ray Kerr, not Chris Sale, starting Game 2 of NLDS for Braves in Los Angeles

While the Dodgers trotted out one of the best pitchers in baseball, Tarik Skubal, on extra rest, Atlanta was forced to begin with a bullpen game due to its rash of late-season pitching injuries and the fact that its wild-card series against the Phillies earlier in the week went three games.

While there was the thought that Chris Sale would bounce back from his relief appearance in Thursday's Game 3 of the wild-card series on one day of rest to start Sunday's Game 2 of the NLDS, that won't be the case.

The Braves will instead have left-hander Ray Kerr (0-0, 0.00 ERA in postseason), who delivered as an opener in Thursday's winner-take-all game against the Phillies, start Sunday night's Game 2 (8 p.m. on FS1).