Beau Holder said:
Credit where it's due … Dusty has not panicked where Servais has and he's made the right bullpen calls at the right times. Outside of starting Meyers and probably leaving Verlander in too long, he's been all aces so far.
I will say Servais giving the free pass to Yordan wasn't a panicked call (not saying you were implying it either) but you absolutely have to do it in that situation. Hell, we didn't issue a free pass with a man on first against Judge earlier in the year and it bit us in the ass.
When a guy is as hot as the sun you just hold up 4 fingers and hope your pitcher can get out a good hitter. Luckily he didn't.