Hopefully Shelton is quick to act. I think it's too difficult to blame it entirely on him for the same reason I think it's too difficult to blame Wednesday entirely on Cruz, but in both cases, they were enormous and direct reasons we lost the game.
This bullpen has set a standard where it slams the door shut with a late lead. We had the chance to do that tonight and failed, simple as that.
Shelton is a little bit hard to figure out on this score, because he is a player's manager while also being aggressive and new school about a lot of things. I think removing Holderman from his leverage role leans more new school- there shouldn't be dedicated 7th and 8th inning guys anyways. We've leaned that way for a bit, but we need it put into practice with him now. Nicolas or Stratton should be given an opportunity next time we need leverage late and it's not Chapman or Bednar.