Sorry, but if the 2nd batter of the game takes you out of the game.......... if the team is really that weak, they don't belong here then. I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of every out in a playoff game, especially when all of the opposing team's runs came in a single inning. Exactly, it's a different story if the Cards had mustered anything at all on offense the rest of the game, but that didn't happen.