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Okay, five, six, seven is where Hoffman is what Hoffman got essentially.

And now I think initially when

I saw them warming up and then Vladdy does get the insurance run.

It's now five, one.

And then, you know, the cameras show Siebold and Hoffman warming in the ninth.

And I just, I wondered whether or not I wanted Schneider to send Hoffman into the ninth, regardless, just because he's had some issues in the ninth.

Now, again, he has been pretty good as of late.

So I think I'm sure that ended up being John trying to reward Hoffman for some good pitching as of late, but it just, I can't help, but think that Schneider, I said this before,

the ninth inning is a different animal, right?

And again, I mean, it's crazy to think that this, that whole inning started with a strikeout of Samuel Basayo and then things just collapsed in the worst possible way.

But yeah, it's just, I mean, I can read you a sampling of these texts, but yeah, a lot of people are wanting to know

not only why Varland didn't either get the ninth or continue pitching into the ninth after he was relatively efficient.

I think it's a valid question.

And even beyond that, you know, if you want to blame John Schneider, why Schneider didn't come out to get Hoffman after things turned over for the top of the order, because to your point, when we were talking about it right off the top,

It's not as though they were just squibblers that were that barely got back to the mound that the catcher couldn't get to first base.

They were smashing pitches into right field one after another after another.

I said to you here in the studio, like, hey, John's coming to get him for Taylor Ward.

And then he just did it.

And then again.

He saw, who was it?