Holy moly. I think today settles any debate that Dunning is the number three man in the playoffs beyond a shadow of a doubt, but now I'm thinking Cease might not even belong on the playoff roster. Is there any scenario where you would imagine wanting Cease in the game? I don't see one, let alone starting a game 4. We might be able to get through the first round or two with three, but Sox are obviously going to need a couple starts if you're looking at ALCS or WS. So what do sox do? Go with Gio? Bullpen game? Seems like a bad idea to burn through the bullpen in the playoffs. Probably out of the question to consider Crochet to be sufficiently stretched out, which if he were would be quite a gamble. Sox may have to go with Lopez which would have been virtually unthinkable a ten days ago. Man it is disappointing to see Cease devolve like this. He's obviously been struggling with control all along but this is just getting ridiculous.

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