It didn’t seem like an analytics-driven decision to me. Boone has pushed pitch counts with guys like Cole in the past. The lineup was not going to flip over yet, so it wasn’t fear of the fourth time through the order effect. I didn’t hear or read Boone’s comments, but I assume it was a decision made before the inning started. The staff probably believed Fried was toast and just let him go out and get the one lefty in the lineup before coming out. In the absence of better evidence, I would have kept Fried in until he allowed a baserunner, but I don’t think it was a particularly egregious decision to take him out.
I had that. Even that is smart enough to know that Georgetown sucks.
