Ben Casparius will start for the Dodgers in Game 4, but that’s not really the point, right?

For the fourth time this postseason, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts is going with a bullpen game. Twice the Dodgers have won these bullpen games – Game 4 of the NLDS against the Padres and Game 6 of the NLCS against the Mets – and in Game 2 of the NLCS, which they lost.

Ryan Brasier started the first two of those bullpen games, Michael Kopech the other. In these three games, as many as eight pitchers have appeared in a game and only five have. Brasier has appeared in all three roles, as has left-handed Anthony Banda. Kopech, Daniel Hudson, Landon Knack and Evan Phillips have appeared in two of them. Phillips will not appear tonight because he is not on the roster.

Alex Vesia, who along with Banda represents the left-handed portion of the Dodgers bullpen, only appeared in the first game.

The standout of the three games is the loss to the Mets in Game 2 of the NLCS, when Brasier gave up a run in the first and then allowed Knack five in the second en route to a 7-3 Mets victory.

In the other two, Kopech, who closed Game 3, pitched the third inning of the game in which he did not start. As a starter, he pitched one inning.

In the wins, no pitcher threw more than two full innings, and the only pitcher to throw two full innings was Blake Treinen, who finished Game 6 of the NLCS with a six-run lead.

Unless the Yankees jump on the Dodgers early and make a blowout, it’s unlikely New York hitters will get a second look at the pitchers.

And yes, Casparius is nominally the starter. The 25-year-old right-hander was the second pitcher in Game 6 of the NLCS and threw 1 1/3 innings, allowing two hits and no runs. Casparius won in the clincher.

Casparius started the season in Double A and spent most of his year in Triple A as a starter. The Dodgers called him up in late August and he made his debut on August 31. When he throws his first pitch tonight, he will have made more postseason appearances for the Dodgers in the major leagues than regular season games. He’s still considered a starter candidate and throws four pitches, but he’s mostly relying on his four-seamer and slider out of the bullpen. He also throws the occasional curveball. Over the course of his three appearances in the NLCS, he has thrown the four-seam fastball 42.9 percent of the time, the slider 31.4 percent and the curveball 11.4 percent.