Managing for the next series when you might not get there at all is just dumb. Elimination games should be all hands on deck. You worry about your future problems when you get there.
Bottom of this Padres order has to be the easiest to plan your bullpen against.
Fermin has actually been good this series, hitting him 8th to break up the 3 lefties would actually make a lot of sense.
I would agree with this except I think their bullpen is collectively bad right now. It's like a psychological thing. Unless their lineup keeps putting up a ton of runs like this, I'm not sure how good they'll be at holding leads.