Stephen Vogt knew exactly when to hold 'em and when to push all his chips in during Cleveland's 5-4 win.
in trying to take advantage of matchups. It looked like Tigers manager A.J. Hinch was a step ahead of Cleveland’s rookie skipper at every turn.October baseball for the Guardians & Tigers: Who will be the next unlikely hero? – Terry Plutooff Beau Brieske in the seventh inning of Game 4, and later when Fry executed a perfect sacrifice squeeze bunt for a run in the ninth.
“We’ve had times where we’ve held, we’ve had times where we go,” Vogt said. “It’s just that feel of the game and understanding what the matchups are going to be. We felt like it was the right time to go, and David Fry is a great baseball player and came through.” “We’ve had a very similar cadence to how we use our chips or our pinch-hits or our bullpen all year, and we stuck to it last night,” Vogt told reporters Friday. “We didn’t go all-in early. When you’re not down, you’re afforded that chance to hold or to take a shot or to do things like that.”“If we lost that game, you’re going to say he made terrible decisions, if we won the game, you’re going to say he made brilliant decisions,” Hedges said. “That’s all it seems to come down to.
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