"Jonathan Broxton said he has never watched the tape of his blown save in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series last year at Citizens Bank Park, where the Dodgers open a three-game series against the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday night.

"Nope," he said.

The Dodgers' closer said he not only has tried to avoid replays of his career's greatest heartbreaks, but also his crowning achievements. Other than TV highlights he has happened to see while channel surfing, he said, he has never watched images of himself closing out the 2008 NL division series or last month's All-Star game.

"You can't do anything about the past, good or bad," he said.

And in Broxton's view, the past can only complicate the present, which is already complicated enough.

Broxton pitched two scoreless innings Saturday night to earn a win, but has not completely emerged from the roughest stretch of his season. He has posted a 7.90 earned-run average in his last 13 games, a span in which he has blown two saves and lost three games.

"We need to get him back," Manager Joe Torre said.

While other pitchers might spend hours in front of laptop computers to discover a mechanical flaw that might be responsible for a stretch of subpar performances, Broxton, 26, said he has no use for such modern conveniences.

Too much video, Broxton said, leads to too much thinking. He would rather keep matters simple.

"I don't like watching it," he said. "There's too much to look at on video. You start criticizing everything."

Pitching coach Rick Honeycutt is fine with that.

"If you overanalyze something, it gets hard," Honeycutt said.

Rather than watch tape, Broxton said he prefers to listen to a familiar voice — that of bullpen catcher Rob Flippo.

When Flippo warms up Broxton in the bullpen, part of his duty is to point out to the 6-foot-4 right-hander if something is wrong with his delivery.

That the 44-year-old Flippo has had this role since Broxton was first called up to the majors in 2005 makes the task easier. So does the simplicity of Broxton's delivery.

"When his arm's up, everything fine," Flippo said. "When he starts to get down a little bit, he either comes across his body or pushes. He's really a simple fix. If you feel it coming downhill, then you're in a good spot.""