With the Baltimore Orioles' season on the line, manager Buck Showalter elected against using his closer, AL Cy Young candidate Zach Britton.
Did he ever hear about it.
Before, during, and especially after Edwin Encarnacion's walk-off, three-run homer off Ubaldo Jimenez in the 11th inning of Tuesday's wild-card game, the baseball world was baffled by Showalter's decision not to deploy Britton. The home run eliminated the Orioles, advanced the Blue Jays to the ALDS, and left a lot of people second-guessing Showalter's bullpen management.
Here's how baseball Twitter reacted: