Poor bullpen decisions by Ollie again. He has a mania for platooning and pulled Fernandez brought in King to face one batter. Waste, One inning instead of two by solid relief pitchers.
Then in the 7th brings in Roycroft who had a lot of early success but had been roughed up some lately. Young pitchers usually get hit hard when they come up or do well until they get rougherd up in a game. Then often they lose a bit of confidence and the edge that gave them the early success. No need to waste Fernandez and King that way. Then trailing by only one run could have had us in the 8th trailing by only one run and time to use our best bullpen members.
Ollie seems very reluctant to use our top relievers when trailing in close games. Quite a few losses when his bullpen choices allowed a one run deficit turn into larger margins. much easier to come back from a one or even a two run deficit than the 4 run margin they faced tonight.