(07-20-2021, 10:42 PM)old spanish trail Wrote: Ooooofta. Should have kept Sherfy instead of Brebia. Tauchman with another 3 strikeouts. Just a bad night for Rogers. Too bad.
When you don't have a closer - certainly not a lights out one - as is true with the Giants, then you go with the hot pitcher (if there is one). Garcia has been great lately and did very well again last night. If you're worried about extending him . . . I guess I get that (and he was PH for, which is a separate decision/reason to remove). BUT, McKee pitched the 8th - 1, 2, 3 on 6 freaking pitches. Why not let him go back out for the ninth? [He wasn't PH for in T9]. And then I heard on post-game that Casali relayed that Rogers was off a bit in the bully warming up . . . and yet they still trot Rogers out there? It's those kind of dumbass decisions - ones where you go knee-jerk formula instead of watching the game and letting what your eyes tell you to help make decisions - that drive me crazy as a fan (same thing with pulling Ruf the other night after a BB and a dinger because of the formulaic need for righty-lefty matchup).
One other thing: Dodgers get runner on second with 0 outs and (a) advance him to third on deep fly, and then (b) get him home with grounder up the middle (that only went for a hit because Giants had infield in). Giants get runner on 2nd with 0 outs and don't even advance him. (Or not until there are two outs).
Up 6-1 in fifth; lose 8-6 on a zero-out, 3-run dinger in the ninth. Ouch! That one stings.
P.S. Anyone else think Tauchman could have/should have caught Taylor's first double? It hit at base of CF wall . . .