Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Anybubby want to hazard a guess as to the benefits of pinch-running Rajai Davis for J.D. Davis before the Confortoboom? I figured it was because you were going to defensively sub him in in LF anyway ... but it didn't work out that way. Why were they looking for a defensive sub? They're either going to win it there, in which case they won't go back on defense, lose it there, in which case it doesn't matter, or tie it, in which case you want your bigger bats still in the game and your pinch-hitters available for extra innings. Gary says they can't pinch run for Canó because they are running out of players, but of course they can. They're already inserting a player off the bench by pinch-hitting Lagares. You can pinch-run Matz at first, and if you don't score, put Lagares in the outfield and Mac Niall at second.