I will disagree because the game isnt over until its over... you were questioning his decision to put an end to the game as soon as possible with his closer because you were thinking about the future... had he left his other pitcher in and someone knocked it out of the park, that crowd would have gone berserk and anyone he could have brought in would have been under a lot of pressure. Two runs down after home run or two, how would you like to have been called out to close things down.. what if you walked the first batter you faced..now your facing the tying run. If LeClerc lost the game at that point, he would have lost a lot of confidence for those future games. Didnt the rangers lose a game a while back in bottom of ninth after giving up 5 or 6 runs?

Semien bust's out of the slump in a big way!
Jankowski steps up huge for injured Garcia!
Seager continues his run for MVP!
Jung and Heim solid contributor's in tonight's offensive onslaught.

Go Ranger's!

Fair enough, we'll just agree to disagree. They did lose a game a while back in the 9th but those runs started with 0 outs, not 2 outs.

It was a 6-run game with 2 outs. They could have gone back to back to back against Smith and still not caught up.

I think Leclerc lost some confidence anyway coming in and giving up 2 runs. 2 of their batters got to see him again. Smith couldn't finish and lost confidence. It's a loss all around with the move Bochy made.

And now Leclerc has pitched 2 straight days and if you need him to go 4/5/6 outs tomorrow, he can't...or if he needs his upper 90s top end stuff, it's not gonna be there. You're going to be forced into Chapman or someone else who isn't as good to try to get you home. Maybe it won't matter, but bringing him in with 2 outs in the 9th of a 6-run game didn't matter either except to hurt his confidence a little and take away him being fresh tomorrow. You can't say you don't manage for tomorrow, but it was 6 runs and 2 outs...the game was over.



Regardless, the big hope is that our stud 2B is back on track if he, Seager, and Carter are all smoking the ball, that's huge. Jankowski and Jung had good games. Taveras still looks lost, as do Garver and Lowe most of the time. Hopefully they pick it up tomorrow and we close it out and the only planning we have to do for the return trip home is where the parade is gonna run.

Taveras and Lowe both got on base and scored. Garver walked and had quality AB's in spite of the 3 K's If anyone looked "lost" last night it was Carter. For the 1st time since he was added to the postseason roster he proved he was human. I bet he doesn't go 0-4 tonight.

I need 7 games for beer sales so let's go d backs

Taveras and Lowe both got on base and scored. Garver walked and had quality AB's in spite of the 3 K's If anyone looked "lost" last night it was Carter. For the 1st time since he was added to the postseason roster he proved he was human. I bet he doesn't go 0-4 tonight.

Please tell me Bochy has your cell number, just in case he gets into a bind you are just a short phone call away.

Please tell me Bochy has your cell number, just in case he gets into a bind you are just a short phone call away.