WASHINGTON — Buck Showalter got himself in a sea of hot water, and bounced out of the playoffs, for going by the book with his bullpen management in the American League wild-card game. In Friday’s opener of the National League Division Series, Dave Roberts took his turn penning a chapter in the new book.
Terry Francona, who called on relief ace Andrew Miller in the fifth inning of Cleveland’s win over Boston on Thursday, may be the lead author, but Roberts is in on the revolution, maybe the John Jay (no, not the Padres outfielder) to Francona’s Alexander Hamilton if you think of each of these playoff games as something like the Federalist Papers.