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Roberts: I would make the same decision
- Updated: September 11, 2016
MIAMI — The morning after, Dave Roberts talked about his highly debated decision to remove Rich Hill seven innings into a perfect game in Saturday’s 5-0 win over the Marlins.
Joking that he went through a six-pack after the game and didn’t get much sleep, Roberts said he would make the same decision under the same conditions — with Hill’s recent history of finger blisters, with Hill perhaps the best pitcher in the game but making his next start on regular rest, with three weeks left in the regular season, with Clayton Kershaw having pitched three innings in 2 1/2 months and with the club having already overcome an avalanche of pitching injuries and an eight-game deficit.
“We’ve talked about the ‘team-first’ from the beginning of Spring Training, and for me to put any one player’s individual success — as amazing and great as it would have been — ahead of the team to potentially compromise our goal, I think I would lose credibility,” the Dodgers’ manager said. “Dodgers fans are really upset with me, and I get it. But true Dodgers fans understand that my responsibility is to …
