In the regular season, your are always playing to win the game. I meanthis game, or at least you try and put yourself in position to win more games. That is not true in Spring Training. If you are upset Doc let Stetson Allie, the wild fire-baller, walk batter-after-batter in the 9th inning only to take him out and let Yordy “Lordy, Lordy” Cabrera give up a three-run game killing double, your anger is misguided.
What Dave Roberts did in the 9th inning yesterday was a resounding success, not an abysmal failure. Dave Roberts put them in a pressure situation to see if they were ready for prime time and it turns out they were not.