please tell me AGAIN about what a great fawking manager this guy is.

leaves the c0*ks*cker Heath Bell in to completely blow a 4-run 9th inning lead.

great job Ozzie, your team has lost 9 of 11 and you continue to pitch the POS Bell

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Edited 6/25/2012 10:29 pm ET by redfaninrp

Bell is their 5th relief pitcher of the night. I don't know where Guillen had other options, and I guess he figured a 4-run lead should be safe enough.

Unreal!

The guy just kept throwing fastballs with no control. And he's no Chapman- SIGH.

If Chapman is physically sound, he needs to get his head right before Dusty sends him back out there.

And if he isn't, he shouldn't be anywhere near the ball field.

I don't think there's something wrong. He just lost his confidence and his breaking stuff is not being used properly.

I don't know where Guillen had other options,
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how about just leaving in Dunn, who had K'd BOTH batters he faced in the 8th?

or not panicking and pulling Sischek(2.90 ERA) in the 8th after only 1/3 of an inning with a 4-run lead after HanRam made an error?

another "genius" move....

walk Beltran with runners already on 1st and 2nd. next batter... infield single.... OOOPS

Well let's hope the Marlins pull it out. It would be a big lift to the Cards to come back and win this one.

>another "genius" move....

>walk Beltran with runners already on 1st and 2nd. next batter... infield single.... OOOPS

The next batter was the rookie starting PITCHER Joe Kelly. Matheny was out of position players due to a piece of stupidity of the home plate ump Bob Davidson that took Craig out of the game. (Davidson just admitted it.) It was Kelly's first major league hit.

Cardinals win 8-7. Final out was on a hard line drive caught by the CF with the tying run on 2nd and winning run on 1st.

Marlins are now 5-17 in June. Ugly.

The bell may be tolling for Ozzie in South Beach. (no pun intended)

Can't believe the Marlin collapse last night, but on further review it's even more difficult to blame Guillen there for summoning Heath Bell in the 9th.

Bell, for all his troubles early in the season, had gone 10 appearances in a row, covering nearly 10 full innings, without giving up a single run. Bell was 7 for 7 in save opportunities during that stretch spanning all the way back to the last week in May.

I'm sure the 4 run lead seemed a safe call and a sure thing for the guy. He just had a terrible outing.

If you can't bring him in to protect a 4 run lead then when can you bring him in? If it was a 1 run lead Bell would be the last guy I'd call upon after I use up my utility infielders. If he had any arm left then he should've had them ready, but I'd guess Bell was it.