There’s using your bullpen wisely and then there’s sticking to a script so aggressively it costs your team the World Series. Hindsight might be 20/20 but it was pretty obvious (at least to all of Twitter) that things started falling apart for the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 6 the moment Kevin Cash came on on the sixth inning to pull ace Blake Snell after he allowed a base hit.
Snell had been dealing to that point with two hits on 73 pitches, and a massive nine strikeouts. He looked good, he looked confident, and he looked super mad about being ousted from the game.