Orioles manager Buck Showalter gambled on his starting pitcher and on his mid-tier bullpen guys on Saturday night. It all failed horribly in a seventh inning meltdown and they lost, 8-4.
Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a baseball game. Once your starting pitcher goes 100 pitches, the bomb is armed. If his velocity is below 90, it blows up. What do you do? WHAT DO YOU DO?
If you're Orioles manager Buck Showalter in Texas on Saturday night, you let it ride on the starting pitcher, Yovani Gallardo. The bomb goes off. The game explodes.