Ok, I will bitch again... Francona puts in Faulke in the 8th inning of a tie game. He obviously thinks a tie game at home in the 8th statistially can be won by the home team. Maybe true, we'll see. But this is no different than that game in Baltimore. What's after Faulke that can't come before him in the 8th or 9th??? Who pitches a tie game in the 10th?? A closer is a closer. A setup man is just that!
This whole "use the closer in the 7th" thing is going to kill me all year.
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