Relief pitchers batting is weird.
It seems unnatural, doesn’t it? Especially when it's an American League reliever. I mean, the manager has to have an option better than letting a reliever hit.
Ozzie Guillen did have better options on June 8, 2005, in the top of the eighth inning in Denver. His bench wasn’t yet empty — considering that two players still available to him ended up homering before the night was over — and the White Sox were revving up the offensive engines, extending what was a 5-4 lead at the beginning of the inning to an 8-4 lead with nobody out.