re: This is by far the biggest regular season series of the year

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If PM had pulled Coleman after he got out of the bases loaded jam, we probably win the third game. But as usual he left a young pitcher in WAY too long

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I tend to agree but it’s not like the next two guys came in and did a great job either but I’m different circumstances they may have done differently.

I don’t mind send him back out for the 8th. You have a 8 run lead let the youngster stretch it out and see if he can handle it. When they hit a three run homer to make it 9-5 I would have given him one shot to see if he could bounce back and get out of the inning then I would have pulled him. Edwards comes in with 1 on instead of 2 on and even if the rest of the game goes exactly how it does (walk, HR, Floyd in, third out) you are up by one going into the ninth and see what happens.