The only reason Martinez faced the lineup twice is because everyone else tripped over their dicks. As for Bielak and France, you don’t alter your starting rotation for one game in June, especially when it’s already in shambles from injury. This is 100% on everyone other than Martinez.
Cleveland is a bad baseball team. This loss was embarrassing on all fronts, but you cannot a.) blame the last guy in the bullpen for going out there and eating innings to the best of his ability, or b.) waste your starting pitching for the rest of the series to try and win in June. In the playoffs, every bullet is available. In June, if you take it on the chin with your last man standing, so be it.
The real fucking goat here is Javier. Staked to a 4 run lead twice and he goes out there and shits himself in 5 innings. Fucking brutal.
This is disingenuous at best. Both doubles allowed were in his 4th inning of work. 2 of the 3 walks were intentionally walking Jose Ramirez, the only actual walk he allowed was to Andres Gimenez and that walk setup the, should have been, game winning double play.
Eta: there is plenty of blame to go around for that debacle last night but I’ll hear none of it concerning Seth Martinez. He did what he could, he was just placed in an impossible situation
Nobody else agrees with my opinion, thats fine. You have the same right to an opinion as me.
And I’m simply a fan with no experience or baseball background at all. Just try to have opinions based on that.
I disagree that I was disingenuous.
The fact that the 2 doubles occured in the final inning of work strengthens my argument that he should not have been out there. Though again I agree there were no good alternatives
Surely the Astros should have treated this June game as game 7 of the World Series and had Framber ride out of the bullpen on a white horse to save the day Gandolf the White style.
Hector Neris, Phil Maton and especially Seth Martinez pitched their asses off. Cristian Javier, Rafael Montero and Ryan Pressly shit the bed last night. Altuve not covering the second-base bag on a ball that should have been a double play to end the game in extra innings also was costly.
Never saw a good replay, but I remember the broadcast saying Altuve was playing deep and away from the bag and Pena basically beat him there, whether that’s by sloth or him thinking Pena was taking it and he pulled up I dunno but it sure didn’t work out.
I do not think that is correct at all. It was clear to me Peña expected him to be there and was slow to the bag because Altuve was not there. By the time Peña got to the bag, the runner was on top of him. He had to jump and throw at the same time.
Yeah, that was TK and Blummer said. That Altuve was playing deeper in the hole and shaded closer to first. Is that accurate? I don’t know, but that’s what they said.