This was textbook 2020s managing - starter does his thing for six innings, then you bring in your 7th Inning Guy™, then your 8th Inning Guy™, then your LTOGY™ (fuck you, Manfred, for screwing up baseball AND screwing up the anagram), to get to your Closer™. Problem is, when you have a shit lineup to begin with (Wouldn't it have been nice to have Nimmo up there with the bases loaded instead of Pillar in the fourth?), and when you play by The Book™ instead of letting the best pitcher on the goddamn planet just go (he couldn't get the 8-9-1 guys out in the seventh?), then you get what you get.