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Just now, oriolediehard said:

Why is it when we get good pitching, we cant hit, and when we hit we don't have good pitching???

Yeah, if we could just put them together we'd be so much better than just a .650 baseball team.

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21 minutes ago, Bemorewins said:

I get your point. I just disagree. Yes he's a closer and that's his role. So yes in the 9th but not the 8th in the regular season.

Even if he preserves the lead and we take a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the 8th, we would then need someone else to close the game and Cano is supposedly unavailable today. So there's that to consider.

If we are in a pennant race in September/October and there's "no tomorrow" I'm all with your approach. Just not in April against DET.

You have to remember you have to get a guy up and ready and that takes a couple batters.  You don’t want your closer getting up in the top of the 8th inning.  There was 4 pitches in the top of the 8th inning before Voth came in so unless Bautista was warming up in the bottom of 7th (which he shouldn’t be) there is no way he could have gotten ready in time.

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