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Other teams’ bold reliever use makes Orioles Wild Card loss hurt more

It turns out that two weeks is not enough time to get over the Orioles losing in the Wild Card game. You’re probably having a hard time of it too if, like me, you’ve been watching the rest of the postseason baseball action. Seemingly on a nightly basis, some other manager in baseball makes a bullpen decision to re-open discussion on The Zach Britton Question.

Sunday night’s game between the Dodgers and Cubs did not prove to be any exception to this. Yet again, a team went with an unorthodox use of a high-leverage reliever and won the game.