For some reason Dusty felt the need to bring in a guy with a 5.88 ERA in Scherzer's spot after he gave up his first hit in the seventh inning with under 100 pitches.

 

Now, the Cubs have tied the game (only after Maddon took out Quintana with his zero earned runs) and are threatening against Solis and now Kintzler.

 

I think you would probably get better results if you just had an untrained chimp pick a lineup and starting pitcher and not make a single move the entire game.

Starting Bauer on short rest seems like it was a bad idea.

wait a minute. you mean other managers make mistakes?

In fairness to Dusty Baker, Scherzer has been hurt recently and said himself that 100 pitches was his going to be his limit. Probably could have used some better relievers there though, although the go ahead run scored on a blooper.

Starting Bauer on short rest seems like it was a bad idea.

To be fair, they had to use Tomlin in extra innings in game 2. And Salazar hadn't pitched in awhile and wasn't stretched out at all. Not a lot of great choices.

In fairness to Dusty Baker, Scherzer has been hurt recently and said himself that 100 pitches was his going to be his limit. Probably could have used some better relievers there though, although the go ahead run scored on a blooper.

I thought Dusty was mostly fine for this reason. Scherzer was pretty much done and he didn't want a rhp against Schwarber.

To be fair, they had to use Tomlin in extra innings in game 2. And Salazar hadn't pitched in awhile and wasn't stretched out at all. Not a lot of great choices.

Fair point about Tomlin.

 

And Kluber has game 5 on regular rest.