re: So many of you “Save Skenes” guys can kiss my arse

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That said, you were wrong about Hurd both in the concern for wildness and Wake having already seen him.

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No, I wasn’t. I said he had the potential to be wild. And Wake still wasn’t chasing his slider off the plate. The big difference was he was throwing it for strikes and not counting on them chasing it. He was great.

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He shut them out for 3 IP himself. He may well have kept putting up zeroes if he had started.

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Did you watch the game? He was great with that slider in the zone, but they were barreling up his fastball and hitting him hard, just right at us. That was not sustainable. Those balls were eventually gonna find grass and he would have been run by the 5th of he’d have started with a nice outing, but we’d have still been down by 1 or 2. Which we could not afford to do against Lowder. And then we’d have had to go to Skenes anyway, which would have still burned him for Game 1 Saturday. If we’d have even made it, which is doubtful because we didn’t score until the 11th. So, the only argument not to start Skenes was to save him till Saturday would have been moot even if we still won, but we would have been much less likely to even make it there as well.

I love Hurd. He has great stuff and I knew we’d need him tonight and we did. But it had to be at the back end because we had to get as much from Skenes as possible. And the only way to do that was to start him.