There are so many 'maybes' and 'what ifs' and 'would've, should've, could'ves' in this thread. The thing is we don't know what was said between them. Or how and why the decision to pull him when he did was made. To add my own 'maybe' ... maybe during the bottom of the 8th Gardy, Andy and Albers had a discussion before he went out for the 9th. Maybe he was already 'gassed' and went out to try and push it through and just couldn't? In the end, right or wrong, a shame he couldn't finish it off or not, it was what it was. It was a great debut, we won the game. I think I can be happy with that without it accepting a blue ribbon just to participate.