No. The absolute inability to score runs will be the reason why this series is over for all intents and purposes. +1......and very predictable at that. Agree, but wouldn’t that be an argument for keeping your starter, who was doing very well and is one of your aces (the strength of the tram), in there instead of pinch hitting? We know our offense is struggling so we need to keep our best pitching in to prevent the other team from scoring and hope we can get into one to win 1-0 (or maybe 2-0 if we get lucky). Taking Peralta out early depends on our bullpen, which at this point isn’t very strong, too hope to not allow any runs. So going to the bullpen is basically throwing the game away. I get it, if we don’t score at all, it doesn’t matter who pitched in our side and how many runs we give up. I think being down 3-0 puts a lot more pressure off the offense than being down 1-0 or 2-0 since the odds of us coming back and scoring 4 runs is very unlikely. 1-0 or 2-0 we could get lucky and lay into one like we did in game 1.