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Originally Posted by Kasi
I’m amused that the narrative today was that they should have pulled their ace after sitting down thirteen in a row when this forum has constantly ripped Montoyo for pulling starters every time earlier in the year. Go back two months, people brought up third time through the order and posters were told no you should go with gut and trust your ace. At the end of the day Ray didn’t deliver and hasn’t delivered recently.
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Be amused all you want.
6.56 ERA vs the Yankees this year
.935 OPS third time thru the order
At the very least they should have somebody warming up at the start of that inning, and when Rizzo took him deep the hook should have been out, with Judge, Stanton, Torres, etc coming up.
####, Judge had already roasted Ray for a 430+ foot home run in that game.
It's not hindsight, it's common sense.
If he'd owned the Yankees this season then it wouldn't make sense, but they had kicked his ass all season and odds were they would get to him again, especially the third time through.
Ray may be our ace, and he may win the Cy Young, but not against the Yankees was he an ace this season. That has to be taken into consideration.
