MILWAUKEE -- Left to justify his decision to turn to a rusty Michael Wacha instead of a ready Trevor Rosenthal in the bottom of the ninth of a tied National League Championship Series contest two Octobers ago, manager Mike Matheny stuck to a script that had long been accepted.
"We can't," Matheny explained, "bring him into a tie-game situation when we're on the road."
Rosenthal, of course, never got to pitch that night in San Francisco as Travis Ishikawa sent the Giants to the World Series the minute he crushed one of Wacha's fastballs.