No, it did not "burn" the bullpen, completely or in any other way. Six guys were available to pitch the next day (Guzman Marmol Gregg Stevens Heilman Grabow). By your logic, any bullpen that does not have a full complement of all seven arms available every single day is "burned". Complete and utter nonsense. You keep ignoring the main point over and over again. Thisis what you constantly do. You pick and choose which facts and points you want to9 include in your posts. You railor the facts to your argument. JUST BECAUSE A RELIEVER WAS AVAILABLE THE NEXT DAY DOESN'T MEAN THAT HIS INNINGS WERE IRRELEVANT. I'll say this for the THIRD time. Every inning on your bullpen this late in the season is relevant. Even to your crappy relievers. This is when bullpens wear down. Now let's see if you ignore it again. Was it Heilman's 1 inning or Grabow's 1 inning that put the bullpen over the edge? It was Samardzija's 4 innings. Seriously, by this logic every single game taxes our bullpen Yeah, not sure how we would have survived without Samardzija in case of a 10 run lead the next day.