I have a hard time blaming Vaughn at all. He hit didn't get a hit in the 9th but he moved Yeli into scoring position with less than 2 out. Turang just had a terrible AB.
I thought the game was lost in the 8th inning. That was just all sorts of stupid.
That inning was Murphy over-thinking it. Let Hamilton just bunt. At least he's not likely to commit a mortal sin and ground into a DP. With Sanchez it was a high probability and there it was.
Perk sucks. If the bunt is the move, let Frelick do it.
Just maddening decisions that inning that resulted in exactly what we thought it would.
It's a little crazy to me that Turang has really been so good for a year now that even during his slump I kept thinking. "this dude is about to go on a tear". When Turang came up even into parts of last season you just kind of accepted the slumps and hoped he'd run into some. He is a completely different hitter from then.
Top 100 guy, IIRC.
Look, the guy is struggling to locate, but the stuff is there. It's silly to say he doesn't have good stuff; he's just not sure how to harness or use it.