The age of micro-“role”-managing shows how stupid it (sometimes) is:
Unless Doubront got injured mysteriously in the dugout, here’s apparently John Farrell’s thought process:
Let’s see…I can leave in a pitcher who has allowed three hits and zero walks in eight innings and who is showing no signs of “weakening” or “running out of gas”, who is under 100 pitches and could at the very least get a chance to finish the game, someone I KNOW is pitching great…OR…
I can put in someone who’s been erratic and who, at best, MIGHT pitch great.
But hey, he’s the “closer”…put him in.
My thought when I saw him warming to come in, before he’d thrown a pitch: “If he comes in, it’s an absolutely idiotic move by Farrell.”
My thought after he came in and blew the lead: “He came in…it was an absolutely idiotic move by Farrell.”
My thought if he had struck out the side: “He did it…it was an absolutely idiotic move by Farrell.”
-Puppy >.< Yip!