We needed him for one batter. This was not a hey let's send him out there for the 8th and 9th. This was one batter, an elite hitter to face off against our elite pitcher. If he gets Soto, we head to the 9th up 2 at minimum against Zimmerman and the bottom of their order, which is horrendous. If Soto gets a hit, you get the same result as what happened and likely only used Hader for a 1-6 pitches. Hader hasn't really been overworked lately either. His last outing was 10 pitches and that was 2 days earlier. If we can't use Hader for one hitter after a 10 pitch outing 2 days earlier and a longer, kind of disaster outing 3 days ago, when are we ever going to use him?