Six Years Ago Today The Blue Jays won game 4 of the ALDS over the Rangers. The Jays had lost the series’ first two games (hmmm seems familiar) and faced an uphill battle. However, we won this one...
walk and a Pillar single were up 7-1.started and went 4.2 innings allowing 5 hits, no walks, 3 strikeouts, and just one earned run. He hadn’t run up his pitch count, sitting at 78 pitches. ButGibby brought in. Why? Well, Price hadn’t pitched well in the playoffs in his career. In game one, Price allowed 5 runs in 7 innings. I don’t understand making decisions based on small sample sizes like that. Price, coming over at the deadline, went 9-1 with a 2.30 ERA.
But with just game 5 left in the series, presuming the Jays would win this one, Gibby had decided thatwould make the final start. And I guess Gibby wanted to get ahead of any potential controversy over that choice. I would have liked to have Price in the pen for game 5, just in case Marcus didn’t have it that day. And I would have wanted to let Dickey get the win he earned. But I didn’t understand why we’d want to use up a pitcher when Dickey could have gone 6-7 innings and kept us with a rested pen for game 5.Anyway, 2 outs, in the 5th inning, with a runner on first, there was a 95% chance of a win. It’s the definition of a low-leverage spot.
A better reason for the move is that Choo hits right-handers well. Of course, RA isn’t your normal right-hander, but that reasoning would, at least, be reasonable.The main one is that he warmed up. Once he warmed up, he had to get into the game. As much as that’s circular thinking, I got him up to warm. Once he’s warm, he has to go into the game. As manager, Gibby controls whether he warms up or not.An appeal to authority is all we have.
As it turned out, Marcus had a good game in game 5. 6 innings, 2 runs allowed. He left with the game tied at 2.
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