“We were trying to figure out what the right thing to do was,” Hyde said. “He didn’t have a normal in-between start. We have a month to go in the season. I don’t want to push him any further than I want to. He was obviously cruising. We felt like the right thing to do was, because he was sitting so long during our offensive innings, to get him out of the game with a 10-run lead. Any other circumstance, he would have definitely gone back out. I would have loved to see him. We just felt like it was the right thing to do for him.”