After 5: 7-1

[121Josey]

After 6: 9-4
After 7: 12-6
After 8: 12-12
After 10: 12-16

Shets are on the bed.

 

[Dawg1976]

I didn't follow the game. Did the A team go to bed early or did Cohen get in the way again?

 

[rugbdawg]

Due to Cohen's sub strategy, We had John Holland and Michael Smith taking key at bats in the late innings.

 

[MSUDC11]

I don't have a problem with the subbing. You don't need more runs when you're up by six, you just need outs. You don't really anticipate your bullpen giving up 14 earned runs in that situation.

 

[ShrubDog]

From the few games I have watched our bullpen seems erratic.

 

[121Josey]

I didn't follow the game. Did the A team go to bed early or did Cohen get in the way again?

You should listen to Future Brain** on the BNB show. Meltdown of epic proportions.

 

[patdog]

I don't either. Other than pulling the starter after 4 innings. And I don't have a huge problem with that. This was a case of the players (specifically, the relief pitchers) costing us the game, not the coach.

 

[KurtRambis4]

Exactly.

This is 110% on the bullpen. We could have been sending rugbdawg up to the plate with the lead we had, if the bullpen hadn't blown it up.

 

[RocketDawg]

I turned the game off after we were up so much and fell asleep. Woke up about 10:30 and checked the score and it was tied 12-12. Hard to believe. Checked this morning and we'd lost the darn game. I though, like I suppose Cohen did, that we had that one in the bag. Never can tell with baseball though. Did they get a grand slam in the 10th?

 

[thekimmer]

OK. But those relief pitchers were recruited by, signed by, coached by, evaluated by, and inserted into the game by whom? This is not an isolated event either it is an ongoing trend. I lost count of the # of pen collapses last year and have had a couple this year already.

 

[patdog]

No doubt that ultimately, it's all on Cohen. But, as big a critic of him as I am, I'm not going to throw him under the bus because the pen blew a lead in one game. He'll be evaluated at the end of the season on the job he's done, and if he doesn't make the tournament, he needs to be fired.