{"id":669692,"date":"2026-04-08T05:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669692\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:44:21","slug":"sandy-alcantara-takes-aim-at-manager-after-getting-yanked-in-9th-inning-of-reds-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669692\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandy Alcantara takes aim at manager after getting yanked in 9th inning of Reds loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sandy Alcantara<\/a> is in the middle of an excellent bounce-back campaign for the Miami Marlins<\/a> thus far in 2026. The former NL Cy Young awardee has endured a bit of a decline in 2024 and 2025, but he seems to be back in form for the Marlins, especially if his first three starts of the season are any indication.<\/p>\n

Alcantara entered his third start of the season, which came on Tuesday against the Cincinnati Reds, having allowed a grand total of zero earned runs on the season in 16.0 innings of work. As an encore, Alcantara was brilliant once again against the Reds; he was a workhorse once more, pitching 8.1 innings on the night while allowing just three base hits.<\/p>\n

However, Alcantara, with one out in the ninth, allowed a double to Matt McLain and then he proceeded to walk Elly De La Cruz. Marlins manager Clayton McCullough proceeded to yank him. This proved to be a disaster, as the Marlins bullpen allowed those two runners to score to tie the game at 2-2, and they ended up losing 6-3 in extra innings.<\/p>\n

After the game, Alcantara made it clear<\/a> that he did not like his manager’s decision to take him out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI deserved to be asked how I felt before I was taken out of the game,\u201d Alcantara said, per Kevin Barral of Fish On First.<\/p>\n

Alcantara was at 95 pitches already, which may have played a part in McCullough’s decision to relieve him. Nonetheless, putting in Anthony Bender, who allowed the Reds to pull off a double steal, which then led to a sac fly from Sal Stewart. Bender then threw a wild pitch which allowed De La Cruz to come around to score.<\/p>\n

Calvin Faucher had a nightmare of a 10th inning, allowing four runs to essentially put the game out of Miami’s reach. But this all may not have happened had the Marlins trusted Alcantara<\/a> to get the final two outs.<\/p>\n

Sandy Alcantara is in the middle of an excellent bounce-back campaign for the Miami Marlins thus far in 2026. The former NL Cy Young awardee has endured a bit of a decline in 2024 and 2025, but he seems to be back in form for the Marlins, especially if his first three starts of the season are any indication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sandy Alcantara is in the middle of an excellent bounce-back campaign for the Miami Marlins thus far in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,1816,778,58,4171,4,3480],"class_list":{"0":"post-669692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-marlins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-marlins","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-marlins","12":"tag-miamimarlins","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-sandy-alcantara"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116367502062283595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}