FROM THE FIELD: RADINSKY DESERVES TO BE CLOSER.Byline: KEVIN ACEE ACEE Agence Canadienne d'Évaluation Environnementale (Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency) ACEE AmeriCorps for Community Engagement and Education ACEE Area Centers for Educational Enhancement (Florida) Continuing to go with Todd Worrell Showing confidence in your man, sticking with him, is commendable in August. Now the games are too important to take a chance on a guy who, lately, is not getting the job done half the time. Bill Russell Noun 1. Bill Russell - United States basketball center (born in 1934) William Felton Russell, Russell must continue to go with Scott Radinsky Radinsky finished his career with a 42-25 record, a 3. to close games. Or Darren Dreifort Really, Radinsky is the man. He'll take the ball, he wants the ball - in any situation. Nothing bothers him. It is hogwash hog·wash n. 1. Worthless, false, or ridiculous speech or writing; nonsense. 2. Garbage fed to hogs; swill. hogwash Noun Informal nonsense Noun 1. that Radinsky or any other reliever who has had the type of success he's had this season can't handle the pressure of the ninth inning. Is it not an immense amount of pressure to come into a game in the seventh or eighth inning with runners on second and third and one out and your team clinging to a slim lead? Radinsky has done that successfully many times this season. The real point is Worrell cannot be the only option to protect a ninth-inning lead. Whether he should be an option at all is debatable. Everyone on the team knows Worrell's confidence is shot. Everyone else in the bullpen pitches on merit. They have done that all season. If Darren Hall gave up a walk and a hit, he would be yanked. If Mark Guthrie gave up a run and then walked someone, he would be pulled and wouldn't pitch again for five days. Todd Worrell should not have been in Monday's game, in which he was brought in to protect a two-run lead and instead suffered his 10th blown save and third in five tries. ``We didn't want to use him,'' Russell said. Then why did they? Worrell had pitched the two days prior, converting his 35th save on Sunday. Only 10 times in his career has Worrell been asked to save a game when pitching a third consecutive game. He should not be put in a position to fail again while the division title is on the line. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: The time has come for Bill Russell to forget Todd Worrell and give the ball to Scott Radinsky in the crunch. John McCoy / Daily News |
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