I don’t like Ricky at all, but I feel like he managed that game like he was crowdsourcing Soxtalk.com. The consensus around here was super quick hook on Dunning, use the whole bullpen, play only to the leverage. Yet he’s getting roasted. This is the problem with the precious “bullpen game” people—you have to rely on 8 guys to be “on” the same night.
The problem here was we had no third starter. Blame fate, blame the org, blame Kopech for watching from home (oooh, can I say that?) but this one, THIS one, was not on Ricky.