Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Cain's arm means the world

But, it's the top of the sixth inning. There's no doubt that after 114 pitches, especially early in the season that you should look out for your guy, but Cain had given up only 3 hits and Juan Pierre was at the plate, who was 0-2 and is a generally bad hitter. Bringing in Taschner not only forced him to come in with the bases loaded, but allowed Torre to pinch hit Kemp, a far better hitter than Pierre.

Kemp went down hacking for out number three, so it paid off, but this has to be considered a pretty bad decision in a 0-0 game.

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