So Much To Dissect In One Game

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images “Something something walk-off capital something something!”This is what I love, and have so missed, about live baseball (fans excepted — they weren’t so live): all the moments one can parse, analyze, debate from a single game. And what a game it turned out to be last night, almost into this morning.

Some highlights for your reaction and discussion:

Maddon Outsmarts Himself Twice

Joe Maddon, an overrated strategist whose main goal seems to be to bring attention to himself, made two moves that were costly.

The first was to remove Andrew Heaney after just 4.2 IP and 67 pitches on a night when Heaney was cruising. One can only assume Maddon was getting cutesy with…