LOS ANGELES >> The mystery is solved — if it ever really was a mystery.

Following Game 4 of their National League Division Series Wednesday in San Diego and again at Thursday’s workout at Dodger Stadium, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts would not name the team’s starting pitcher for Game 5 tonight.

The pitching plan had not been “finalized,” Roberts said Thursday. It might be Yoshinobu Yamamoto. It might be Jack Flaherty. It might be a straight bullpen game as they did in Game 4, he said Wednesday night.

“Obviously I’m sure Yoshinobu will be a part of it,” Roberts said before the Dodgers’ workout Thursday afternoon. “How we will deploy the relievers around it, if that’s the case, I just don’t know.”

He knew a few hours later. The Dodgers announced Thursday night that Game 1 starter Yamamoto would start Game 5.

The Padres played no such games. Yu Darvish (who started Game 2) was announced as their starter on Wednesday and answered questions in the interview room Thursday afternoon before the Padres’ workout.

Padres manager Mike Shildt was having none of the shell game.

“I flipped some coins and I couldn’t get the answer,” Shildt said Thursday when asked who he expected the Dodgers to start in Game 5. “No, I don’t know. Somebody’s going to show up and we’ll be ready for him. I don’t know. At some point they’re going to have to announce it, but we’re not in any real hurry, quite honestly.”

The Dodgers appeared to be playing the same kind of “gamesmanship” that Freddie Freeman admitted to around Game 4.

The Dodgers announced a starting lineup for Game 4 with Freeman in it Wednesday afternoon but scratched him before game time. After the game, the All-Star first baseman said he was never going to play and the maneuver was just “gamesmanship.”

“Everybody operates their own club the way they operate it,” Shildt said. “We’re more like Vince Lombardi — power sweep, here it is. Yu Darvish is going to start, here’s our lineup.

“Our lineup was pretty good for 10 runs, six runs, five runs. This is who we are and we’re going to compete and execute. If we do that, we’ll shake hands and pop champagne.”

Yamamoto, who signed a 12-year, $325 million contract with the Dodgers in December, did not pitch well in his Game 1 start. He gave up five runs, putting the Dodgers in an early hole, and Roberts pulled him after three innings.

In three starts against the Padres this season, the 26-year-old right-hander has given up 13 runs in just nine innings. After two of those starts — his MLB debut in South Korea and his postseason debut in this NLDS — there were suspicions that Yamamoto had been tipping his pitches.

“I think we’ve cleaned stuff up,” Roberts said. “To their credit, they did a good job scouting and stuff like that. But I think, overall, kind of where Yoshinobu is at, I feel really comfortable.”

Injury updates

Freeman (ankle) went through a limited workout on the field Thursday. After missing Game 4, Roberts said he expects Freeman to be in the lineup for Game 5.

“I think Freddie is going to be in there,” Roberts said. “With two days off — he didn’t try to get ready yesterday. He’s feeling better today with treatment. So I just feel like tomorrow he’ll be in there.”

After the game in San Diego on Wednesday, Freeman said he was still very much “day to day.”

“So tomorrow (Thursday) we’ll go through treatment and see how we go,” he said then.

Meanwhile, Miguel Rojas (strained adductor muscle) is not expected to play in Game 5. Tommy Edman will start at shortstop, Roberts said. But he wouldn’t say who will replace Edman in center field.

Kiké Hernandez is the likely choice. He is 2 for 6 in this series. A career .238 hitter with a .713 OPS during the regular season, Hernandez has hit .276 with an .886 OPS in 74 postseason games.