text: In hindsight it would have made sense to pull Gray after 5, but in real time he had only thrown about 70 pitches at that point. He came up with two on and two out, but they were up 3-1 and I can see why Black might not want to burn a PH in the 5th when his pitcher had been cruising along so far, I doubt many managers would have made that move. For me, the bottom line is that Gray is supposed to be the team's ace and Bud treated him like one. I can't really fault BB for that move (or lack of one).