It is unjustifiable to go up against the most dangerous hitters in one of the most dangerous lineups in the highest leverage situation possible without using one of your two highest leverage arms. It wasn’t even a split advantage for Little - he had get through both Raleigh and Polanco who are both more dangerous hitters from the right side to get to lefty hitter Naylor.
I am pretty confident that Schneider would have gone to Dominguez to start the inning if it was a regular season game. Because of his control concerns, Dominguez is a guy who isn’t a great “fire fighter” who will come in to strand runners. It’s always better to give him a clean inning. If anything, you bring Dominguez in to start the inning and if he ran into issues, it makes more sense to use Little to clean things up because of his ground ball rate.
Why he would deviate from the plan in the biggest game of the season is astounding to me.
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