It's the morning after Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, and the Seattle Mariners are still reeling from the Springer Dinger heard 'round the world. The second-guessing is not going to end until the Mariners finally earn the AL pennant that has eluded them for nearly 50 years, and that won't be until at least a year from now.
So, we might as well push the second-guessing party even further and ask: Never mind just Game 7, what the heck was Eduard Bazardo doing out there in Game 6 just a day earlier?
At issue here is not the level of Bazardo's talent, which shouldn't be ridiculed or downplayed even after he served up the George Springer home run that sank the Mariners' season on Monday.