Dylan Hernandez: Dodgers manager Dave Roberts' pitching change flops
by Dylan Hernandez, Los Angeles Times
Oct 28, 2018
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES - As Dave Roberts journeyed from the bench to the mound Saturday night, the fans in Dodger Stadium started to boo. The closer the manager moved to the mound, the louder the boos became.
The audience knew something Roberts didn't: He was making a mistake by removing Rich Hill from the game.
Then again, the Dodgers were ahead by four runs. What in the name of Jonathan Broxton could possibly go wrong?
Plenty, it turned out.
Hill's premature departure started a chain of events that resulted not only in the Dodgers blowing their hard-earned advantage,
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