I’m gonna try to keep this one quick and dirty since I’ve already dug in almost deep enough to provide a suitable grave should I die on this hill. Just in case you’ve managed to avoid the wild swinging of my cudgel to this point, I’m talking about how Joe Maddon needs to let Yu Darvish work through trouble. We saw perfect examples of that in the first two games when the Dodgers, when José Quintana and Cole Hamels were allowed to wriggle out of jams.
Maddon has been vocal about trying to protect Darvish, which only serves to fan the take-flames slowly roasting the big righty for being mentally weak.