“There is no such thing as a must win game in April.”
These are words that somebody said sometime, probably. Now, I don’t know if a loss in April is going to cause us to miss the playoffs in September, and neither does anyone else here, but all wins and losses are worth the same amount in April as they are in the last month of the season. In this respect, every game should (at least in theory) be exactly as important to win.
Chris Sale and the floptacular bullpen lost 12-4 to the Mariners that Nathan Eovaldi found himself facing.