Taking out Ross Stripling who has an ERA of 5+ and using your best tools in the pen to lock down a victory makes sense to me. Who knows if Matz absolutely blows it in the afternoon then you're using a long man like Thornton and you don't even end up using Romano or Dolis. It didn't work out. Montoyo botched the second game by not having a guy warming up and leaving Chatwood in, and that was obvious. But I don't think taking out Stripling was a bad call, he has been pretty brutal all season and deserves a short leash.
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