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in that particular decision he wasn't optimally smart either?
But are you really saying he was not sufficiently attuned to the fact that we were down 1-0 and the only way to remedy that was to score a run, most likely right then and there?
Or are you saying that he was willing to fail to give himself the best chance at winning that game due to factors beyond the game itself. That, of course, is a perfectly reasonable explanation given sufficient "factors beyond the game itself."