Heading to the Battery around 3 - come on boys!
Snitker will have to answer some tough questions after this one. You bring in Fried and he goes three up, three down. Why not bring him back in the eighth?????? You obviously burned him so he wasn't going top make a start, let the guy pitch. Then you bring in Greene in the 9th and shut the door. Got some tough calls from the 1st base ump tonight on check swings and the toe play in the 9th. But I am not even sure how Melancon made the post season roster. He has never come around and leaves too many pitches up in the zone and has trouble locating. This was a frustrating game but it didn't have to be. Bad endgame managing of the pitchers.
Horrible use of bullpen. While Greene struggled early on he has been very solid the last month or so and really should be considered the ace and held for the 8th/9th innings. At a minimum you hold him back if you want to use Luke to bring him in if need be with a combo of Greene and Melancon to close out and get Luke out the likely jam he is going to get in. Burning Greene so early and leaving you a very erratic Luke and Melancon was awful. Especially with Melancon coming in the 8th inning. I knew we were doomed then as he is not that strong that you want him going more than one inning. I think Snit only used Fried an inning because he feels he can still use him in a game 4, but that was dumb. Have to jump for the Ws when you can and honestly not sure you pitch Fried if you get down 2-1 and only if you are up in the series given his recent starts.