Watching the Baltimore Orioles’ heartbreaking loss in the American League Wild Card game Tuesday night left one question looming in everyone’s mind: how could Buck Showalter not use Zach Britton in such a scenario?
Britton, who will no doubt draw votes for the AL Cy Young honors this winter, was one of three pitchers on the O’s roster who rode the pine. Three.
As everyone knows now, Toronto slugger Edwin Encarnacion crushed a walk-off, three-run bomb in the bottom of the 11th against Ubaldo Jimenez.