Davey Martinez pondered getting Sean Doolittle, (who returned from an IL stint for right knee fatigue on August 26th), into Friday night’s 10-2 win over the Boston Red Sox, then thought better of it since he wants to get the one-time closer back into a high-leverage relief role now that he’s seemingly 100% healthy.
“I toyed around with it [if it was] 6-1, 7-1, something like that,” Martinez explained when he was asked if he considered using Doolittle in the eighth or ninth, “but right then and there — he needs to be a guy again.