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At the end of the day, Varland was literally the best he possibly could have been.

He used one pitch.

He got two outs.

He got them out of the ballgame.

It is going to be interesting to see what Schneider has to say about the situation at this point because...

The double hit batters, that to me is a bit of a different thing than just having a couple bloop singles fall in or maybe just a hitter beating you and taking you over the wall.

There's a different feel to what went on in this game than other versions of Hoffman struggling.

Yeah.

It's tough to frame that respectfully.

Unfortunately, I get it.

No, this is a very, very low hot moment for often.

So it is easy to jump on and people are rarely as bad as they look at their worst moments.

They're rarely as good as they work.

look at their best moments.

But at the same time, there's a moment to acknowledge when something is truly a problem.

And this feels like that moment, like him losing the handle on those pitches.

Like I said before, that's just not a guy struggling or a guy experiencing bad luck.

That's a guy kind of losing it out there.

And that's what he did in this game.

And whether that means he's not going to get the next save, you know, John Schneider has always expressed a lot of faith in Jeff Hoffman, more than the general public.