I think they clearly planned for minimum runs given up at the cost of blowing through more pitchers. Shoemaker was coming off injury and they said he went more than they thought so they moved on. Then Ray pitched reasonably well and they were likely happy to get through 3ip without him losing his command. So they turned it over to their bullpen and we’re going to use their best pitchers to keep them in the game long enough for bats to do something. Well our pitcher threw a bad pitch and our hitters didn’t hit. The first sucks but the team was losing if the hitters didn’t show up. And that’s what happened.
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