Note: Sean Green just Didn’t Have It
Last night, with no outs, a runner on first and the game tied, Sean Green hit the first batter he faced, then walked Mark Reynolds to load the bases.
Following a double play, Green threw a wild pitch allowing the D-Backs to the score the go-ahead run.
…green was booed pretty hard after getting the final out, and walking from the mound to the dugout…
“I threw a fastball in the dirt and it got away,” Green explained. ‘My command was subpar, to say the least.”
Green had not allowed a run to score in each of his previous eight outings.
…Bobby Parnell was clearly unavailable, because he pitched in both games the day before during the double-header… Brian Stokes and Pedro Feliciano had already been used… Tim Redding is being held aside, i think, because he’s most likely going to start on Monday… this means, only Pat Misch or Francisco Rodriguez were available to pitch in relief of green… misch has not been good, allowing seven hits in his last three appearances… frankly, i, too, would have trusted green to get out of his own mess over misch… in other words, the only option was to use rodriguez, but it was a tie game at the time…
…manuel’s mistake, if he must be charged with one, would be using both feliicano and stokes in the seventh inning… in the end, the mistake is not on manuel using or sticking with green, it’s in green for not executing his pitches…
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