Chicago Cubs at Arizona Diamondbacks

Conversations in the dugout in critical moments have to come quick, because the game moves fast down there. Looking at his lineup card with the bottom of the ninth coming up, Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo knew he was likely going to pinch-hit for Jorge Barrosa, the No. 9 hitter in the order and the fourth player due up in the inning. Lovullo had some options on his bench. There was Jose Fernandez, Ryan Waldschmidt and James McCann, all right-handed hitters. Lovullo went over to his hitting coaches -- Joe Mather, Damion Easley and Travis Denker -- and asked who they thought should be the one to step up. "Give us a minute to talk it over," they told him. "The game is moving at warp speed, and I'm having four or five different conversations, and it's, you know, in 25-second segments," Lovullo said. "I said, 'Think about it. I'll come back in one minute.' I went back one minute later. ‘Do you have an answer?’ ‘No.’ I went back in one minute after that. ‘Do you have an answer?’ ‘No.’ So they dragged it out as best they could, and they said \[send\