Sport Hinch: "I'll have to live with" bullpen decision in Game 7

HOUSTON (AP) — Astros manager AJ Hinch had options.

© Provided by The Associated Press Houston Astros relief pitcher Will Harris watch as Washington Nationals' Howie Kendrick reacts after hitting a two-run home run during the seventh inning of Game 7 of the baseball World Series Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, in Houston. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

There was Zack Greinke, a veteran ace showing his first signs of fatigue. Out in the bullpen, Gerrit Cole was watching. And of course, Will Harris was warming.

What came next, Hinch will contemplate for years.

"It's a decision I'll have to live with," he said.

After Greinke allowed a homer to Anthony Rendon and walked Juan Soto, Hinch handed a 2-1 lead to Harris in the seventh inning of World Series Game 7. In Harris' first at-bat, Howie Kendrick drove a two-run, go-ahead homer off the right field foul pole screen — a haymaker that stunned Houston in a 6-2 defeat that cost them the chance at a second title in two years.

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It was the second straight night Harris surrendered a home run after Rendon took him deep for two runs in Houston's 7-2 loss in Game 6. Harris hadn't allowed a run this postseason before that shot.

Greinke, the 2009 AL Cy Young Award winner who joined the Astros from Arizona at the trade deadline, had looked strong all night. He threw only 80 pitches, was just starting his third turn through the order, and Rendon's homer was just his second hit allowed. He played superb defense, too.

And yet, out came Hinch.

"We asked him to do more today than he had done, and pitched deeper into the game more than he had done in the entire month of October," Hinch said. "I wanted to take him out a bat or two early rather than a bat or two late."

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That was only half the decision that went so wrong.

Hinch could have turned to Cole, a Cy Young Award contender who won Game 5 on Sunday. Ready to go on short rest, he was warming up earlier in the game but had cooled off by the seventh. He only left the bullpen after the final out.

"I wasn't going to pitch him unless we were going to win the World Series and have a lead," Hinch said. "He was going to help us win. He was available, and I felt it was a game that he was going to come in had we tied it or taken the lead."

Harris was Hinch's man for that seventh-inning spot. It's not hard to see why. The right-hander had been steady in the late innings all season, posting a 1.50 ERA in the regular season. And Hinch liked the matchups with Harris facing Kendrick and Asdrubal Cabrera — right-handed hitters who figured to struggle with the right-handed Harris and his sharp breaking ball.

He just faltered at the worst possible time.

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"I hate that for him and for us that his last feeling this season is about as low as you can feel coming out of Game 7 of the World Series," Hinch said. "He's answered the bell so many times, he's gotten us out of so many jams. He's been a go-to guy. He's a stand-up guy."

Cole started throwing in the bullpen again in the eighth, but by the ninth he was sitting down again, wearing a jacket and staring emotionless toward the field. He was simply a spectator to the last moments of an illustrious 326-strikeout season that could well earn him his first Cy Young — but that didn't get him a ring.

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