Pitch to Adolis Garcia or Joey Gallo with the game on the line? That was the decision Dusty Baker was faced with yesterday, with Nick Solak on third as the winning run with one out in the tenth inning. Dusty chose to pitch to Garcia, Garcia singled, Solak scored, and the second guessing — not unreasonably — began.
I talked about the issue last night in my Thoughts post, which you can read here — my takeaway is that there were good reasons to pitch to Garcia and so pitching to him or walking him was reasonable — and I ended up expanding on that in response to a comment on that post.