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Everyone is calling Eric Gagne's save Thursday night a cheapie, but it was just as pricey as many others.
Sure, Gagne entered the game with a five-run lead, but with the bases loaded. If Gagne had allowed Jeff Conine to reach base - a single, a walk, an error, anything - and the next batter had hit a home run, that's a tie ballgame right there.
Gagne's save was no different than coming in with a two-run lead and the bases empty. He had a one-batter margin for error - that's it.
It wasn't like pitching out of a bases-loaded, none-out jam with a one-run lead in the eighth and closing it out in the ninth, but let's not take Gagne too much for granted. The situation Thursday was way more precarious than the score indicated.
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