Johnson should have pulled Gonzalez in the 5th when he started losing his stuff.
I watched in horror as Gio came out in the 3rd, the 4th and the 5th. After the second I told myself, no way he's see's 3. No effing way.
Davey, to me, failed, big time, enormous, last night. Gonzalez was all over the place to start and it didn't get ANY better inning by inning. That the Cards helped him out for a few innings ain't exactly what you want as barometer as to how he's doing. I thought he, Johnson, manged as though it was mid season and he was simply trying to get to 5 or 6 to spare an over worked pull pen.
How in the flying hell do you leave all those cards, so to speak, in the bull pen, un-played, in this game????? My god, hours before, those guys, all of them, struck out everything they looked at, blowing people away, and you let your starter flounder about until...until it blows up in your freaking face???
HUGE fail in my view.