Carpenter was something like 7-13 with 5 HRs off of Kirby at that point...no way they're letting him face him a 3rd time. ...and then the thing they were worried about happens anyway
Yikes. I don't see Detroit scoring another run. I think this was the game. They trusted the kid and he came through, incredible.
You needed to let Skubal pitch the 7th. Now you're paying for it by putting in a middling Finnegan. Oh well.
They should've let Skubal keep going. Unless he said he was done? He was rolling. This is Hinch putting in Miley for Greinke all over again.
Tigers fans and the announcers are questioning Hinch's bullpen management. He treated this like another regular season game.