Which I honestly don't blame him for. We're talking about a 38 year old man who'd just done heroic service to his team. You can't leave him out there to die.
Hill had done his share, especially against a deadly Boston lineup. If the Dodgers bullpen (and manager) can't bring it home, that's on them, not on Hill.
This is exactly the kind of reasoning I hate. Because what they tried didn't work they should have clearly tried something else. No. This is not logical. It's a classic example of argument from hindsight. And it absolutely ignores the fact that Hill felt he was done. There is NO guarantee that leaving a pitcher in after he felt he was done would have yielded a different outcome.
Think about it this way -- remember 2003? Remember game 7? How many people here remember that when Pedro felt he was done, he did that point-at-the-sky thing? Well he did that in the 7th. He was announcing that he'd done enough. Gump dragged him back out for the 8th anyway. That did not exactly go as fans might have hoped. But if we'd brought Timlin in in the 8th and he gave up the lead guess what, we'd be making the same argument LA fans are making now about Hill. Should have left him in.
Gump wasn't stupid because of the outcome. He was stupid for forcing his pitcher out there after he'd as much as announced to the world that he was done. As a manager, you absolutely listen to what your starting pitcher is telling you. If he thinks he's done, then for all purposes he IS done, because psychology is an actual thing and neither stamina nor self-confidence, both of the two biggest key assets of a starting pitcher, are infinite.
Also as a manager, you HAVE to count on all your personnel to do their jobs. That includes the bullpen. Roberts counted on the bullpen to bring it home, which is
literally their job. They didn't get it done.
Personally I firmly believe Roberts didn't do anything wrong in that game. He was trying to steal a game against a better team and the Red Sox outexecuted his players. Bottom line, I'm honestly not sure what I'd have done differently in Game 4.