LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers have a few things going for them: The three killers at the top of their lineup, Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Friday’s hero Freddie Freeman.

A 1-0 lead in the World Series after Friday’s grand, historic 6-3 walk-off victory over the New York Yankees.

And that bullpen.

That bullpen that we all figured would play big in whether the Dodgers would win a championship.

That nightmare-inducing, problem-causing group of ego-free gamers.

That group whom the Dodgers have been relying on to hold the line all postseason, biding time until their teammates at the plate break through — whether that’s early like they did so often against the New York Mets in the National League Division Series or much later, like Freeman did with one storybook swing Friday evening at Dodger Stadium.

The first baseman’s 10th-inning grand slam gave the Dodgers a mathematic and emotional boost going into Game 2 on Saturday, where Yoshinobu Yamamoto will start and try to match Jack Flaherty’s 5 1/3 impressive innings in Game 1 before turning it over to the teams stars in the ’pen.

We know the Dodgers’ relief corps is superior to the Yankees, which blew leads in the ALCS against the Cleveland Guardians, and which leans on the tandem of Luke Weaver and Clay Holmes, the latter of whom had a MLB-leading 13 blown saves and was replaced as closer by Weaver late in the season.

The Dodgers’ relievers, meanwhile, have been doing seriously heavy lifting all postseason and making it look easy. Coming into this series, they handled 60 1/3 innings (including the three “opener” assignments by Ryan Brasier and Michael Kopech) and get a lot of the credit for the Dodgers’ postseason record-tying streak of 33 scoreless innings against the Padres and Mets.

The quartet of Evan Phillips, Blake Treinen, Michael Kopech and Daniel Hudson came in having allowed just three runs in their 24 innings.

On Friday, two of those guys were among the five relievers who chipped away against the Yankees’ formidable lineup, giving up just one run in 4 2/3 innings of work. Anthony Banda got out of a bases-loaded jam to close out the sixth after Giancarlo Stanton’s two-run home run off Flaherty put the Yankees in front.

Brusdar Graterol returned from a shoulder injury after not having pitched since Sept. 24 and pitched a scoreless inning.

“That was the bet for us,” Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts said. “We’re betting on Brusdar’s heartbeat, the stuff. He hasn’t pitched in forever, put him in a big spot, threw up a zero and kept us in the ballgame. He was lights out tonight.”

And Alex Vesia made his return too (from a rib injury) and struck out two in a scoreless inning of his own. Kopech entered in the top of the ninth and got two outs before Treinen took over to close out a scoreless ninth.

“Yeah, it was a chess match,” Roberts said. “You’re trying to use the right guys and appreciate that there’s more baseball to be played. It was fun now that I look back at it, but in the moment you’re just really trying to kind of play chess.”

Treinen struck out Stanton to start the 10th before Jazz Chisholm singled and stole second and third base, scoring what appeared like it might be the deciding run on a grounder by Anthony Volpe.

The Dodgers’ hitters were due, however, and needed to get only one runner on to ensure Ohtani an at-bat. They got two on; last-ditch reliever Jake Cousins walked Gavin Lux and Tommy Edman reached on an infield single.

But Ohtani fouled out against Nestor Cortes — who hadn’t pitched since Sept. 18 and was gutting through a flexor strain. And the Yankees put Betts aboard with an intentional walk, which set the table for Freeman to do the type of lasting damage to Cortes that Dodger relievers managed to avoid.

As Banda explained after the Dodgers’ Game 6 victory in the NLCS: That bullpen, they get it.

On a team of superstars, they’re the Dodgers’ superpower.

“I think it has a lot to do with understanding our job, understanding that regardless of what happens, we’re going to pick each other up. There’s a lot of confidence down there,” Banda said.

“And the biggest key factor would just be trust in our stuff and trusting what the pitching coaches and analytics have shown us and given us the plan of attack and just going out and executing that.”