my preference would have been to try to sneak another inning out of palencia earlier. he's either really good or complete trash, and he looked like we got the good version today.
i think ross is too quick to pull a reliever that's cruising. i wanted him to stick with merryweather in the game the other day because he looked good, and, sure enough, leiter came in and had nothing.
all that being said, i now want to leave thompson in for the 9th.