Why?? My question is why do you give him anything close to the plate at all right now?? Let him get himself out or let him take the walk. I don't care if there is a runner on first and 0 out or not. I'd much rather take my chances with the rest of the hitters coming up in the inning to try to get out of it, then what happened. Either way, if they score two by everyone else's doing ,or Howard clears the bases ,like he did, it's still two runs. You have a much better chance of getting the DP ball and a fly out to get out of it with no damage then you do getting Howard out right now. And people really wonder why this team is struggling so much right now?? Things like that. Just stupid, stupid baseball.