September 8, 200620 yr The way I feel about this is that in a situation like last night where your starter goes 4 2/3...most teams aren't going to feel particularly good about those games. The back end of the bullpen guys are in that role because they've been deemed unreliable in tight spots. So even though the game was still close, you're using pitchers who don't have a lot of experience in close games and the experience they do have isn't particularly good (see: Messenger). As with pretty much every other team in MLB, we're going to have a hard time winning without a good performance from our SP.
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