Found October 13, 2009 on Big League Stew:
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Colorado closer Huston Street(notes) might be trying to shoulder the blame for Monday's season-ending loss to the Phillies, but in a baseball rarity, the rest of the world isn't placing him solely in the crosshairs.No, the honor of that spot would also belong to Rockies manager Jim Tracy, who is taking plenty of heat for keeping the righthanded Street around to face the sinistrophobic Ryan Howard(notes) for what could have been the last out in a big Rockies' win. Instead, Street gave up a two-run double that changed the course of the game. Many bloggers have already weighed in on why Tracy's call a particularly bad idea, so I'll use some of their excerpts to further illustrate: Rob, 6-4-2: "Why on earth did Jim Tracy let (Street) stay in the game? That's the winning run at the plate in the person of Ryan Howard, whose .207/.298/.356 line against left-handers could be emulated by a bag of kittens. (Howard, by the way, led the league in the regular sea...
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