Then you're the only one that feels this way. He's certainly partially to blame. 45% Counsell, 45% Knebel and 10% Soria. Where's the rule that says you have to stick with your "closer" once you make the decision? Literally every other manager would've pulled their reliever once he walked the first two hitters, if not the first hitter. Not only didn't Counsell pull Knebel, he even gave him another hitter after walking his third hitter in a row, falling behind in the count to every one of them. That's just inexcusable considering that everybody knows how shaky Knebel is. CC didn't even have anyone warming up until it was too late. Knebel is not our closer. We don't really even have one. We have a closer by committee, and Knebel at best is a distant third in the pecking order.