Quote Originally Posted by guttle11 View Post
I find it hard to second guess Volquez when it was obviously defense that let him down. Cabrera has to make that play, and Gomes should have made his, or at least played it on a hop and saved the run. Who knows that would have happened if either Gomes or OCab had done their jobs. He could have blown up anyway or given the team 6 innings of 1 or 2 run baseball. Does he still walk Rollins if no run had scored? Kind of an incomplete performance, unless you think he should have completely shut down that offense, which is a bit too much to ask of anyone.
I would bet a ton of money that Volquez would have imploded either way. I think it has been obvious that when Volquez doesn't have it, he doesn't have it. Walk Ruiz and fail to put away Valdez and Halladay and there isn't really an excuse.