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BasStov a écrit :mais je me suis surpris à être plus pour les Astros pendant les matchs !

But with Shin-Soo Choo, a left-handed hitter, coming up, and fellow lefties Prince Fielder and Mitch Moreland to follow, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons wanted to get a left-hander of his own in there. Since left-handed reliever Brett Cecil is done for the postseason with a torn calf muscle, Price was going to be the guy.

After the game Dickey played the role of team guy, admitting that as a competitor it's always difficult to give up the ball but that he respected Gibbons' judgement. Gibbons also explained his thinking behind the move:

"I was hoping today to get five (innings) out of R.A., maybe six if things went well. We did have a nice little lead, (but) the way I looked at it, we were starting to roll around that top a little bit. One thing I've learned over the years is that sometimes the best way to win games is, don't let a team get back into it."
"When it comes down to it, my job is to manage the team and try to win the game. All those things factored in. I thought it was the best move. Probably not a popular move, but that's what you've got to do. In the regular season, it's different. That doesn't happen. But in a do-or-die game for us and I've seen it too many times in this business, especially with the kind of lineup [Texas has] and the way things were stacking up for us. They get get a couple guys on [and hit] a long ball, it's a totally different game."