The nasty shadows are back.
The nasty shadows are back.
Bruce works the count to 3-2 and K's swinging on a fastball.
Patterson pinch-hitting for Cabrera.
Corey Patterson pinch hits for Cabrera. And he grounds out on the first pitch. LOL.
Richar hitting for PHILLIPS.
Richar hits for Phillips. Someone's not gonna like that one...
Richar lines out on the first pitch.
Danny hacks at the first pitch and lines out to short. Hit it hard, at least.
Aggressive pinch-hitters. I'm sure Dusty is thrilled.
Does Bronson come back out for the 8th?
OBM's favorite reliever, David Weathers, will pitch the 8th.
Three times in four days for a reliever again.
Arroyo with 120 pitches today. Dusty has an enormous bullpen and just can't help but push starters to the limit every day. This is precisely what happened in Chicago. Come August & September, he leaned even more heavily on his horses. Of course, back then he had a playoff race as justification. Now he's using other people's playoff races...
The man just doesn't seem to have a sense of proportion when it comes to the value of a single game versus management of assets for the long term. It's not just stupid, it's selfish.
And who comes out to pitch the 8th? One of the fresh arms? Of course not.
Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.
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