Good morning, baseball fans!

We have an argument for the ages today. Ever since Madison Bumgarner entered Game 7 of the 2014 World Series in relief for the San Francisco Giants, managers everywhere have been attempting to copy that strategy, to varying levels of success. We saw it again in this year’s World Series Game 7, in which multiple starting pitchers made appearances in relief.

However, this was the first time I felt like someone else gets to join the Bumgarner conversation. And that someone was Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who entered in relief of Blake Snell in the ninth inning for the Dodgers. He inherited two runners and one out, then immediately loaded the bases with a hit by pitch. And then he got out of that jam, pitched a clean 10th inning, and then somehow got out of a two runner

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