I don't have a problem with AJ's decision making for the game. Looking back it would have been nice to see Cole one more time to finish it out instead of Smith and Osuna though. Would have been fine watching Grienke try to get one more batter but I see why he took him out. The 7th inning was the save situation. Will Harris was the leverage guy that you wanted to come in with runners in scoring position that blew the save. Ideally Harris would have gotten you out of the inning to have Cole come and close out the last two innings. Looking back on the season the biggest injury turned out to be Pressly. If we had the dominant Pressly pre-injury I feel that the WS would be ours.
In fairness, Hinch probably was thinking Greinke going 4... Urquidy 2... I just don't get why Greinke's leash is so short whereas Verlander's was near non-existent despite similar track records.
That's the underrated "What if?" to me. Last year's Pressly or first half Pressly would have been the call there... who knows if Kendrick hits a fluky home run again, but the guy with the 0.56 March-May WHIP would've been nice to have there.
