Matheny Quote

[Duck_walk]

We put him in a tough spot. But you [saw] the first couple pitches come out of [his] hand and I think everybody in the baseball world asked why we had been waiting so long to let this kid throw.


Everybody in the baseball world..... That verifies it.

 

[Neutron Monster]

Originally posted by Duck_walk:
We put him in a tough spot. But you [saw] the first couple pitches come out of [his] hand and I think everybody in the baseball world asked why we had been waiting so long to let this kid throw.


Everybody in the baseball world..... That verifies it.

To have that game end with none of Choate, Martinez, Maness, and Rosie having thrown a pitch...yikes. Just dreadful. Hell, we didn't even have to pull Neshek that fast, he got out of the 8th quickly.

The time to use Wacha was the 4th inning of game 4 or something like that if you really wanted him to get work. I'd have put Gonzalez in then, not Wacha or Choate, but I could understand the logic of putting Wacha in there in a lower leverage situation.