Detroit – It won’t happen here.
What we saw in Game 6 of the World Series, with Rays manager Kevin Cash taking the ball from bewildered starter Blake Snell, who had allowed just two singles in 5.1 innings and was preserving a 1-0 lead in a do-or-die game — a move that was pre-planned and intractable and ended up being fatal – won’t happen on new Tigers manager AJ Hinch’s watch.
“There will be no scripts or preconceived decision-making,” Hinch told the News after his introductory press conference Friday.
One of the topics discussed during the interview process with general manager Al Avila and his staff was the level of autonomy Hinch would have in games.