Buck Stuff

[eddie83]

No Mancini for Kim.

Anybody but Ubaldo there, anybody.

[kelsey59]

Britton pitched on Sunday. He was only going for 1 inning at best. If he finished out the inning for Ubaldo, then who do you put in?

[O's84]

Crazy talk

If it comes out the Britton was injured I'll gladly take it back. But you don't get these opprutinites that often. To let your best pitcher not even in get into the game in a do or die game is indefinisble. We've all had critism the way Buck handles games during the regular season and I can take it if it's saving the pen over the long haul. But this is do or die, you have a guy who but up a 0.54 ERA during the season and the middle of the order is coming up. I'm sorry, but if we ever want to win a WS I think Buck needs to go.

[eddie83]

You have to score some runs it didn't matter who he pitched the offense was terrible.

And who is to say the next inning we don't score?

[cheecks]

I disagree. Buck got away with bad decisions. You use your BEST pitchers in a tie game where if you lose, you go home. Buck was doing everything he could to NOT use Britton. The results were good, but they were not

smart moves. It just isn't. Gibbons had it right using Osuna for two innings and then going to Liriano. Showalter did all he could to not use Britton, the best pitcher in BASEBALL at a time where you had to shut the other

team down. Terrible decision. Also, why not walk Encarnacion? Why are we hanging our entire season on Ubaldo out of the bullpen?

I said he used the BP brilliantly up to the last inning. I have to give him credit for taking Tillman out early for Givens, giving Givens more than an inning, keeping Brach in when he got in trouble and going to O'Day at the right time. Not going to the best stopper maybe in the history of the game in an single game elimination is inexcusable.

[baltfan]

THIS game was 100% on our complete failure as an offense. A complete inability to make a pitcher work...our complete ineptitude to do something OTHER than hit a HR. This has been an issue pretty much all year. WE MUST CHANGE THIS CULTURE.Sure, blame Ubaldo if you want.We werent going to score.You MUST BRING BRITTON IN THERE..unless he's hurt. Either way, this is really about an offensive failure. Completely and absolutely about incompetence as an offense.NO OTHER EXCUSES.

Buck should have pitched Britton but the offense gets the ultimate blame here. I agree

[ExileAngelos]

I felt like we had to win this game 2-1 after Trumbo blast. Sad but true. I felt like we were absolutely done after Bourn botched fly ball. Man I hope we get some OBP injected into this lineup in the off-season.

[pastorfan]

You know, searching through that Ubaldo vs. Tillman thread, there were a lot of votes for Ubaldo to start this game.

This one is a hard one to swallow but people bashing Buck and pretending they can manage better are deluding themselves.

It is not "bashing" it is telling the truth. I guarantee you former managers will be talking about how foolish it is to have your best pitcher never enter the game. If you use him for a couple of innings and you never score and eventually lose, then so be it, but he has to get into the game.

[Il BuonO]

Especially given Drew Stubbs' presence on the playoff roster. Ya know, a guy who historically has hit lefties well and isn't a bad defender.

Or, PH Mancini and have Stubbs play defense.

[eddie83]

Buck just said he was available. My god. I can't fathom it.

[Dark Helmet]

He had the best RP in baseball to work with. And he let him sit. Reimold? Won't even bother there.

[BarclaySouthway]

Buck says Britton was fine. No words. My disappointment knows no bounds.

[joew]

You worry about closing the game after you actually get a lead. In do or die, especially as the road team you must use your best pitcher first

[atomic]

If Britton wasn't injured buck should be fired. No other choice. I don't care when he brought Britton. He could have brought him in the sixth and I would be fine with it. This is a one game playoff you cAnt be concerned about save situations.

And why is Reimold even on the team. He has been awful for what 7 years?

[waroriole]

I'm embarrassed for you guys.

Seriously. The game thread was pretty embarrassing all night.

That said, terrible decision to leave Britton in the pen.