If we play Tuesday, it's gotta be like an 11am game, right? Anyway they move G5? Slated Wed at 3...should be Wed night or Thu AM for travel purposes...
I couldn’t find coverage on ESPN after game 2. I’m guessing I’ll have no problems running into the replays of this one.
It's weird cause all I remember was him coming through time and time again during the regular season. It did feel like the stage was too big for him in this game.
If Hinch doesn't pull him for Liriano who knows how it plays out. He's gotten himself out of trouble many times this season. To pull him for Liriano was a bad move. Surely Hinch knew Devers hits lefties.
I agree. Hinch did an incredibly dumb move. Our bullpen isn't good enough to cover the rest of the way and keep the game close imo. That would be a bit of a rarity for that to occur. 3-2 lead...you don't pull your starter in the 3rd inning. You at least see what happens with the next batter or two. He's trying to protect a 1 run lead in the 3rd inning? That doesn't show much confidence in your starter.
He thought thats what you are supposed to do in the playoffs. All the other managers do it, why shouldn't he? Peacock was certainly capable of getting the out.
Of course he was. Of course, if he gave up a HR, then everyone would have been saying Hinch was stupid for sticking with Peacock at that point. As usual, all the criticism of the move came after the results - not a single person questioned the move when it was made.
This is a weird thing to say. I questioned it when it was made. Peacock didn’t have his best stuff today, but he wasn’t doing that bad either.
Peacock (and Morton for that matter) is horrible the 3rd time through the lineup. He gave up seriously hard contact to Moreland and Ramirez prior to being removed. He was far from sharp... or the Red Sox were just that much more prepared to face him. Criticize Hinch with going to Liriano, for sure... but I don’t think leaving Peacock in to “figure it out” was going to end up working. I know saying playoff baseball is different than regular season baseball may not be true from a 162 game statistical sample... but certainly, hitters who are on a hot streak, locked in, whatever, over a small sample size have a much larger impact than a random 3-5 game stretch in May, and every single matchup is going to be that much more exploited, scrutinized, or forced. Also, why are people still mentioning saving bullpen arms, or trying to not overwork anybody.. as if all the extra off-days, and “lose and go home” scenarios don’t exist?
That's complete horse ****. Plenty of people knew liriano was a stupid move before he threw a pitch. Just because they didn't run the computer and post immediately doesn't mean they didn't think that.
