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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2202637, member: 289"]
Gselman comes back and gives up 3 runs in 6 innings as the Mets build a 5-3 lead. he gave up 6 hits and 1 walk. Not great but not bad. Salas comes in for the 7th and leads the bases with 2 out. Collins takes him out and brings in Ramirez, a guy they got off of waivers, presumably because he's a righty and the batter is, too. Ron Darling and Gary Cohen note that Ramirez's rep is that he's wild, not the sort of guy you really want in there with the bases loaded. He throws two pitches- one way out of the strike zone and the scored over the center of the plate. The hitter lines it off the top of the fence. Two runs score to tie it and Collins yanks Ramirez, bringing in Edgin to face a lefty.  He gets the out that keeps it tied. Collins then replaces him with Smoker, who gives up an upper deck home run on his first pitch of the 8th inning.

Ron Darling, who normally avoids second guessing the manager, wonders out loud: "Why not leave Gselman, who was pitching well in the game to start the 7th? Why not leave Edgin in when he looked good getting that one out?"

Of course, it's not that simple. Gselman is coming off a demotion to the bullpen and hadn't started in a while. You don't know what Edgin would have done. Collins just wanted him to face a left-hander.

But you wonder if it isn't that complicated, either. If a guy's not pitching well, why not keep going with him instead of seeing what the next guy's got?
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