As much as I'd love for him to manage this game like it's game 7 of the World Series, he's made it clear that all he wants is this team to be healthy. He wasn't gonna force it even though I'd prefer he keep his foot on the gas pedal at least until the division is clinched. He's already begun the process of resting German. We're gonna see more CC than we'd like to. When you have a 40 man roster he's just gonna churn through his pitchers until Severino and Betances return, so at best, you're gonna get one more week of this until they clinch.
It doesn't have to be Game 7, but we're playing for something substantial still, and we haven't clinched the division either. The offense did way more than needed to win the game. They put up 10 runs and still lost. The choice of pitching let the team down, much more than Gleyber. We also fielded an OF that had Tyler Wade in RF and Clint Frazier in LF. Neither of whom could hit a cutoff man.
Detroit is a 100 loss team. We have the 2nd toughest schedule going down the wire. We need to sweep series like these in Sept, not diddle around and settle for the series win.
Tomorrow, he's rolling 3-inning CC out there. Not even a guaranteed win under these circumstances anymore.
Let's win the division at least first, then try to play for HFA while resting German, Paxson, Matsui, Judge, Sanchez, Torres, DJLM, and even Gardner, and working Stanton, Severino, Betances back into the mix.
Rainout