[SuperMatt18]

To me the real question I have for this game is Lauer, Dominguez, and Fluharty being left in the pen and giving Yesavage and Hoffman more than 1 inning each.

That 8th inning should have been somebody else to face Muncy IMO.

Scherzer got you through 4. Varland got you through the 5th. Bassit got you the 6th. Yesavage got you through the 7th and I think you leave him in for Betts.

But then Lauer or Fluharty should have come in to face Muncy who has much better power and BA numbers vs RH than he does vs LH.

Then you had Hoffman earmarked for 9 for sure.

Especially Lauer who had not given up a run in his last 8.1 IP in the playoffs and hadn't been used since the 18 inning game on Monday, he was fully rested. Fluharty I kind of get since he was used a lot vs the Dodgers.

But why was Lauer not leveraged at all in game 6 or 7 with a chance to win the world series. He came in with a pretty clean inning to win game 1. They used him in that spot to face Muncy in Game 3 too - he came after Fisher got Smith and got Muncy and Teoscar out. And struck Muncy out in the 16th too.

Maybe they were worried because those guys had seen Lauer 3 times in that game, but they had seen Yesavage a lot over the series too.