14-22, Chart

That is to say, there’s a good chance League would’ve given up at least one more run. Again, that doesn’t change the moves terribility.

Has Wak never heard of the two-inning save? Or that you should use your “bullpen ace” in the highest leverage situation? Maybe Wak thinks White is our best reliever and is therefore a complete nar-nar.

Three were unavailable (used already, closer, used two innings last night).

I guess you could argue that Kelley should have gotten in before White and Colome, and it’s what I would have done. However, we all know this manager has some odd distaste for Kelley, plus he pitched an inning last night and gave up a 2 run homer.

Distaste + used yesterday + bad results yesterday = no Kelley

According to MLB.com, this is our tenth walk-off loss this year. That sounds impossible.

Well run organization, everything seemingly headed in the right direction, everyone’s all lovey dovey, then the baseball gods decide to shit on your chest.

But how does Wak think that White will do anything but blow?

And your characterization of certain player’s skills is off base and foolhardy. Kotchman and Figgins are not worse at hitting than “AAA nonames”, it’s not even close. They may both be struggling but time and time again we have gone over why their numbers look as poor as they do. If you choose to ignore that, fine, but you don’t get to misrepresent their skills without getting called on it.

With this lineup, the sacrifice is quite worthless in most situations. Just giving up an out for the next guy who likely will fail.

We would have been in the same situation anyway if Saunders bunts, because Maddon would likely have walked Ichiro to face the hapless Figgins.

I would have liked a bunt there but will point out that drag bunts go down the first base line, not the third, so the shift doesn’t play into Saunders’ drag bunt skills.