Originally Posted by
MetEdDawg
Guys. Please think. You don't bring Sims in with that level rain coming in. You get him maybe for 1 inning and that's it.
Lemonis knew the rain was coming in. He tried to slow play it as much as he could to get the rain in there before Stinnett has to throw. But if you go 2 hour rain delay, which is what this will be, and you throw Mac or Sims, you aren't bringing them back out and you lose one of your best bullets in the 9th in a tie game.
Stinnett couldn't grip the ball and it completely affected him just now. The whole world knew that 3-2 to Melendez was going to be a FB because he couldn't grip the breaking ball in the rain.