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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
They won in spite of the decision though, that clearly backfired. Offense bailed him out, otherwise he'd be getting the Girardi treatment right now.
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Why was it a bad decision though? He had every reason to believe Verlander would give him a few strong innings to hand over to his closer. It was the bottom of the fifth so also there was no reason to believe the offense was done. And like I said he had Keuchel for game 5, so there is no drop off. He wanted to make sure he used his best pitchers as much as possible.
I don't see the comparison to the Girardi gaffe.