I thought Rasmussen would have been a great choice with a string of righties coming up and a comfy 3 run lead. The bizarre thing is that you know if we had gotten a 4th run, Hader would have sat down. I don't know when Counsell turned into Dusty Baker.

If we had Burnes or Woodruff coming up for Game 2 I could have understood it, but not Lindblom.

I do think Counsell is overall a good manager, but almost every move he has made this year is different than the way I would have done it.

Anyway, hope it won't matter, but it's going to be tough with no Hader, no Williams, no Peralta. Hopefully we can score some runs.

I wish he had felt that way in Game 4 of the NLCS when he chose to let Junior Guerra pitch to Cody Bellinger rather than a relief pitcher with 2 out and a man in scoring position with everything on the line.

I didn't get worked up about Guerra being used. They pitched to Cody Bellinger with 2 out, a man in scoring position and the game on the line, when they could have literally faced a relief pitcher instead and likely gotten to the next inning. That is my issue. And it is still baffling.