So even at 7-1, he was going to manage like it was the last game of the season. If the Blue Jays had lost, it would have been.
Toronto did take care of business Monday afternoon at Globe Life Park by beating the Texas Rangers, 8-4, and forcing the best-of-five ALDS back home to Rogers Centre for a decisive Game 5 on Wednesday (4 p.m. ET, FOX Sports 1/Sportsnet).
So strip everything else away, and Gibbons got exactly what he wanted out of it. He raised some eyebrows along the way, but a win is a win is a win.