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Pitch early in the home seven,
three and two for Riley Green. He

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labels this ball high in the air
right field. This is way out of

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here. Just wait for it to
land. Riley Green's bastball and boom,

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shake the room and the crowd goes
crazy because this ball is flied out to

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right field. Bye bye baseball.
Riley Green strikes again. That was the

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bottom of the four in Game one. Riley Green with the home run,

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the leadoff home run in the inning, his sixth of the year, which

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is a nice number to start the
season, right, We'll take that.

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Unfortunately, Cardinals came back in the
ninth to beat Detroit two to one.

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In that first game. I don't
want to be the naysayer here. I

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don't want to be the mister negative
here, because Detroit did come back and

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win the second game. They scored
in each of the first three innings,

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probably scared you a little bit when
they were up for nothing, and then

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the Cardinals put a five spot on
the board in the fifth before Detroit responded

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in their half of the fifth and
then kind of pulled away in the seventh

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with a four run seventh. But
the problem that many fans had after game

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one. It's not just the loss, it's you know, I say this

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all the time, it's how you
lose. Are you going to lose with

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your best player? You're going to
lose with your players who do what they

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do best. And I don't think
Detroit did that in Game one. It's

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easy to second guess managers. And
this is how we started the show.

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What coaches or is it manager?
Because there's only one man. I suppose

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there's a manager in soccer, but
we're not going there. There's a manager

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in baseball, and then he has
coaches. Everybody else's coaches, as you

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know, So who gets second guest
more? I think it's managers and offensive

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coordinators, which eventually falls at the
feet of the head coach in football,

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But I would say baseball managers because
things are right there in front of you

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and it's a slower paced game.
Baseball can be very fast. You may

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not think that, but it's true. It can be very fast. You

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have to be thinking so many innings
and so many moves ahead. It really

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is chess. But I think a
lot of people are wondering, wait a

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minute, now, hold on,
why in the world is Shelby Miller in

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the game the guy had one save
all of last year. You know how

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many saves he had as a major
leaguer. How many saves does he have

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one? He's got one. I
know he comes out of the bullpen for

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the Tigers. But he is not
necessarily a back end guy, not a

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ninth inning guy. Never has been. And before people say, well,

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you can adjust to those roles,
every manager has told us ninth innings are

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different. The ninth inning is not
as easy as you think it is.

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It's a problem that a lot of
players have had over the years. Being

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a setup guy and being a closer
and a setup guy may not always be

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the most complimentary thing, but it
really is a key role. If you're

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bridging, let's use that instead.
If you're bridging the seventh to the ninth.

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If you're that eighth inning guy,
and Jason Foley has been that guy

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in the past, that's pretty damn
good. You still need that quote unquote,

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hold, don't you? Absolutely so? When you have that, it's

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a vital piece. But the ninth
inning is different. It just is the

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feel, the pressure, the part
of the order oftentimes that you're seeing if

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things go well. If you don't
believe me, ask jose Cis Naro how

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different it truly is, because he'll
tell you it is. It's much different.

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Certain guys are built for certain situations. Joaquin Benwah ask him how different

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is the ninth compared to the eighth? Twenty thirteen. Hello, it's right

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there for you. Jason Foley had
no problem with the eighth, and I

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don't think he has any problem with
the ninth either. Aj Hinch does not

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like labels. He does not want
to label guys certain situations. So he

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doesn't want to say he's my closer. Why I quite honestly, it's I'm

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not totally certain on that. Why
you would just it's okay to call a

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guy closer. I think a lot
of managers do it. He doesn't have

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to. I think he doesn't have
to, nor does he because he may

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not have the ideal guy Alex Lang
could do it right. He's got multiple

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guys he thinks can do it.
So it depends on the certain situation.

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It depends on who's coming up in
the order, and it depends on if

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there's anybody on if you need a
ground ball. Some guys are fly ball

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pitchers. Some guys are ground ball
pitchers. Some guys have certain success against

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lefties or right You want a guy
who has success against either. That's the

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ideal situation. You're gonna have guys
make mistakes. You're gonna have guys who

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blow saves. That's just the way
it is. There's no Mariano Rovero or

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Trevor Hoffman any longer, no Lee
Smith out there right now. Okay,

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But Jason Fuldy's got nine saves for
you. He threw nine pitches. What

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do you saving him for? This
is what fans were saying, and I

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understand it. Not bring them back
out there. There is a difference when

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you're off the bump and then you
go in the dugout and you sit down.

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They call them updowns. When you
go up and then you sit down

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in the inning, wait for it
aying to get by, and then come

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up again. People feel like there's
a factor there. That's what you build

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up to in spring training. You're
building up your endurance to do something like

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that. And I don't mean physical, oh man, I'm winded. I

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mean it's the arm. It's waiting
on the arm, all that other stuff.

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Would I have preferred to see Jason
fully come out for a seconding you

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bet at least start the inning.
So managers feel like certain guys need to

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come in from the bullpen to start
the inning. Some guys feel like,

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if you've got to go to fully
in the ninth, then he gets in

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trouble, then who do you go
to trotting out of the bullpen? Who

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feels comfortable in that situation. Alex
Lang should be comfortable in that situation,

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but depending on how often he has
pitched recently, maybe that's not in the

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cards. No pun intended. These
are usually the explanations. I'm not saying

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it's gospel, and I'm not telling
you to not be upset. Alex Lange

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did pitch in Game two, non
safe situation, but he did pitch in

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Game two. Would you have rather
seen him in Game one? Probably?

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If he was healthy enough to pitch
in game two, why not game one?

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In a high leverage situation. Shelby
Miller has been around long enough where

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I don't think it would have been
an uncomfortable situation for him. Otherwise,

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aj Hinch doesn't use him. But
people were upset yesterday because they felt like

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you should have had game one.
They were happy for Game two. What

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was more upsetting to you the pitching
situation in the ninth thing, well,

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the fact they couldn't hit their way
out of a paper bag throughout the entire

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game. We'll talk more about that
on the other side as we get things

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