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Ausmus looks back on pinch-hitting decision
- Updated: May 10, 2016
WASHINGTON — A day after Brad Ausmus said he was in between on whether he should have used Victor Martinez as a pinch-hitter for James McCann in the eighth inning of Monday’s 5-4 loss to the Nationals, expecting he’d be walked with first base open, Ausmus went the other way.
“I would say if I had to do it all over again, I’d probably just let McCann hit and see what happened,” Ausmus said Tuesday. “There’s going to be a handful of times — there were a handful of times last year and probably the year before — where you go back and think about it and go, ‘Ah … I should have done this or I should have done that.’ That will be one of those times this year.”
The Tigers were in a 4-4 game at the time with the potential go-ahead run on second base and two outs. Ausmus had decided to hit for McCann, a 3-for-30 hitter so far this season. When he went that direction, he knew it would come down to Jarrod Saltalamacchia batting against Nationals lefty reliever Felipe Rivero. If he pinch-hit …
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