The value of a closer

Diving in on the Showalter thing. You can sum up by simply saying that Tuesday night, Baltimore and Toronto played a tightly pitched 11-inning game, and Orioles manager Buck Showalter used seven pitchers, and not one of them was reliever Zach Britton. Inexplicable is a word that comes to mind.

Only, we have to be honest about this: It isn't inexplicable …