Francisco Rodriguez told reporters that he was up throwing in the bullpen numerous times in last night's 20 inning game. He says he threw around 100 pitches in the bullpen such that he had a "dead arm" when he finally entered the game in the 19th inning only to then blow the save.
Well, we know this. Mets manager, Jerry Manuel will only pitch his "closer"* at the "proper" time; that is when they have the lead and not even when the game is tied. This applies even when he must warm up the "closer" numerous times frying his arm out waiting for the lead so his "closer" can enter the game and get a "save". No really!
This of course is laughably dumb. This was not after all a split-second lapse of judgement on Manuel's part but was instead a continuous ongoing brain malfunction. Where was his bench coach or better yet, the pitching coach? Failure all the way around here if you ask me. Now because his manager was chasing a save, Rodriguez is likely out for a few games due to his workload yesterday, the great majority of which was not even during the game.
I know the Mets won but I sure hope Manuel is not patting himself on the back for his performance yesterday.
*Is that now a formal position in baseball?
2 comments:
The Mets won the game despite the manager. Along with the K-Rod screw up he made several other mistakes along the way. Why would you not have your batters taking til they have 2 strikes when Lopez and Mather, 2 position players, were pitching. He really needs to go along with Minaya the GM.
I would have to agree, thats no way to manage a game. Glad I didn't have to score that one though, 20 innings, 6 hours 53 minutes? Ouch.
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