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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4386908, member: 1969"]
I did go back and watch the 6th inning again, to see if I was fair in my critique of those using "hindsight".   And it appears I may not have been fair, and I will admit I was wrong -- for some reason I thought Mayza was brought in one batter earlier to face a lefty.    At the time I was sorting though my hundreds of old golf balls and was "half-assed" watching, feeling confident about thngs.

Gausman was struggling (bases juiced) but he looked quite strong in getting that second out (Frazier).   Santana has a positive split vs LHP (.042 OPS Career, and a more pronounced positive split of .134 OPS in 2022).    So he does prefer to hit as a right handed batter - so he would have preferred to face the lefty Mayza.   Although one can argue that Santana had hit a ball in an earlier at bat as well -- but to offset that Santana has not hit well against Gausman in 21 career at bas.

Here's the thing as I think about it again.    It could have certainly been an appropriate and very normal move to bring in Mayza to face Frazier (the left handed batter).   If he had done that I would have been OK.

But once Gausman gets Frazier out, you stick with him.   There is a platoon disadvantage in taking out Gausman to face Santana.   I wouldn't says its totally terrible, but it was certainly a poor one from an analytics and "feel" perspective.

7th inning on was purely an execution issue in using the cards he was dealt with.
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