It's really hard to avoid using hyperbole when talking about this baseball team. But this is simply the most fun I've had watching a professional sports team in Houston since 95.
Ask and ye shall receive. Like I said earlier, *this* is what a worn-out bullpen looks like. And they'll be worn-out for the rest of the series.
This is semantics at this point .. But your thinking is counterfactual because it is based off something that happened in the past. The argument of saving bullpen arms for the future depends on probabilities in the future . Sure, there is a chance the extra rest does not help relative to the "assumed lowered probability" of winning this game , but that is unlikely. Your thinking is counterfactual because we do not know how someone other than jankowski would've performed ( you have the probability that he does better but not the knowledge that he for sure will) furthermore this can be extrapolated to every pitch thrown afterwards . If the situation was different then maybe the pitch thrown or the batting approach is different ... On both sides. For example , you can't say that if jankowski wasn't pitching then we could have just thrown him out there now because we would've scored 11 runs in the 8th ... Because both teams would have played it differently . The future scenario isn't counterfactual just because it hasn't happened yet and there is a chance it may not come to fruition
Looks to me like Hinch managed the hell out of this game. He told them to score 10 that inning, they scored 11.
