Rangers bullpen is trash

[Ren]

how do you end up walking inn runs in the world series?

 

[jimmy40]

how do you end up walking inn runs in the world series?

gag, cough, cough, choke. Rangers pulling an Astros, finally get here and

 

[StylisticS]

Tough to watch. The Rangers bullpen while solid, is not championship level. You can't throw 11 balls in spring training let alone the world series. Sorry. Will need to get bullpen help in 2011.

 

[Avaj]

Another frustration game huh. I had to help my daughter with a school project so I DVR the game. I don't know if I want to go back and watch.

 

[Ren]

Another frustration game huh. I had to help my daughter with a school project so I DVR the game. I don't know if I want to go back and watch.

let me put it this way, the Giants scored more run then they had hits, i turned the game off after the Rangers had walked the based loaded then walked 2 runs inn in the bottom of the 8th by looking at the final score i probably made a vise choice turning it off

 

[tko112204]

Don't know why Washington refuses to use his best reliever in situations like that. You don't even need to worry about him having to get more than 3 outs at the point, but you want to at least stop the bleeding with your best guy.

 

[BlueBandit]

Don't know why Washington refuses to use his best reliever in situations like that. You don't even need to worry about him having to get more than 3 outs at the point, but you want to at least stop the bleeding with your best guy.

He doesn't even know what state he's in , he just knows how to wave guys around the bases .

 

[SaltwaterServr]

I couldn't believe the pitch count for the 8th. 54????? Unreal. That one kid they had up there that walked them loaded, I forget his name, did he ever look in over his head. I told a guy at the bar, here comes a walked run, when they showed his face on TV.

He honestly looked like he was scared. Not nervous, but flat out scared.

 

[Royal Laegotti]

Don't know why Washington refuses to use his best reliever in situations like that. You don't even need to worry about him having to get more than 3 outs at the point, but you want to at least stop the bleeding with your best guy.

Derek Holland has been money this post season, before last night. I can't fault Wash for turning to him, how was he to know he'd throw 11 balls out of 12 pitches. I guess you could fault him for sitting O'Day after he got 2 outs but as bad as O'Day has been in the playoffs I wouldn't have put him in in the first place. It's kind of a crap shoot.

 

[tko112204]

Derek Holland has been money this post season, before last night. I can't fault Wash for turning to him, how was he to know he'd throw 11 balls out of 12 pitches. I guess you could fault him for sitting O'Day after he got 2 outs but as bad as O'Day has been in the playoffs I wouldn't have put him in in the first place. It's kind of a crap shoot.

That's fine. I know Holland was good, and bringing him in was fine, except for the fact that Schierholz is CONSIDERABLY better against LHP than he is against RHP. But that's really beside the point, Feliz should have been brought in when the bases were loaded for the first time. It's the highest leveraged point you're going to have in that game, but it's obvious that Wash is much like Girardi in that he goes directly by the book. That's great in the regular season, when you've got to play the odds the same way all the time so that eventually it evens out for you. In the playoffs every out is too precious.

 

[Royal Laegotti]

That's fine. I know Holland was good, and bringing him in was fine, except for the fact that Schierholz is CONSIDERABLY better against LHP than he is against RHP. But that's really beside the point, Feliz should have been brought in when the bases were loaded for the first time. It's the highest leveraged point you're going to have in that game, but it's obvious that Wash is much like Girardi in that he goes directly by the book. That's great in the regular season, when you've got to play the odds the same way all the time so that eventually it evens out for you. In the playoffs every out is too precious.

Yeah I don't understand these managers reluctance to use the "closer" for anything but that. Most of them do it. They act like the only time they can come in is in the 9th with a lead. I think they treat the "closer" with kid gloves too much.