Second-guessing your manager is as much a part of the so-called national pastime as over-priced beer, peanuts, and Cracker Jacks, especially when decisions the skipper makes don’t work out, and especially when the decisions end up costing your team a game like second-year manager Davey Martinez’s decision to pull Jeremy Hellickson with one out in the sixth did tonight, though how much of the blame is on Martinez for this one is debatable.
Left-handed reliever Dan Jennings took over for Hellickson and walked Bryce Harper, the left-hander he was brought on to face, then gave up a three-run home run by right-hand hitting Rhys Hoskins on a 1-1 slider, which ended up winning the series opener in Citizens Bank Park for the Philadelphia Phillies.