30-10-2017 08:30 via ocregister.com

Whicker: Bullpen roulette backfires on Dodgers in bizarre Game 5 loss

HOUSTON — You can forget a lot of things in 5 hours and 17 minutes.
Dave Roberts, the Dodgers manager, said Brandon Morrow would not work his fifth consecutive game of this World Series.
A.J. Hinch, the Astros manager, said Ken Giles, his wounded closer, would probably not get the baseball in a game-winning situation and, ideally, not at all.
Hinch remembered. Roberts didn’t.
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