Well, I wanted the Jays to win it so much. But you begrudgingly gotta hand it to the Dodgers. They just pulled off the repeat. I think Dave Roberts is such a good manager. Let’s give him credit he deserves. The man always seems in control and makes the necessary adjustments when needed . He Never panics under pressure. He’s both intelligent and experienced. He quickly learns from his mistakes and makes improvements
His roster change/switch/replacement at centre field in the bottom of the 9th saved their asses. Plus his pitching rotation for the last game, knowing his regular relief/bullpen pitchers sucked was brilliant. The devil is in the details, it’s the small things that count. Roberts is Underrated as a tactical and strategist manager just like Joe Torre, Felipe Alou, Bruce Bochy, Dusty Baker, Charlie Manuel and Cito Gaston were. He makes the right decisions at the right time and his gambles pay off
John Schneider sucks so much as a in-game manager. He’s good when everything is going his way, he’s good with a set lineup but when his initial plunder don’t work, he struggles to make the necessary adjustments to win as the game goes on. He relies too much on statistics/analytics, he doesn’t have the feel of the game. A competent manager relies on both. And he often takes nonsense, bad decisions that defies logic and he can’t think on his own feet. Varsho sucked all series, couldn’t hit anything because he can’t hit low balls, yet he kept him in the 5th spot of the order until game 7 even then, he left him 7th in the batting order BEFORE the hottest hitter in the series, Ernie clement. That is bad management. Any other decent manager would have put Clement at the top of the order. But not John Schneider. The past managers in Toronto Blue Jays history, every one of them, Bobby Cox, Cito Gaston, John Gibbons, Tim Johnson, Buck Martinez, Carlos Tosca, Jim Fregosi( remember those two) and even Charlie Montoyo would have done this.
And why Lukes was in the starting/batting lineup over Davis Schneider
And why Davis Schneider was not used as a punch runner instead of IKF? He’s not a slower and a worse baserunner than him.
Eric Lauer should have pitched some innings last night too.
It was truly a Comedy of errors in game 7