I understand not many people were fans of the saturday decision to start charli, but in hindsight it wasn’t bad for many reason. 1) you give your 3rd option a chance to start a big game with a ton of fans 2) an opener isn’t bad considering charli is a once through the order type of pitcher and it was hopeful she would give you 2-3 innings and then payton could come in the back half and finish it 3) if payton did get into trouble then either you put charli in and risk her giving up runs late in the game or bringing in KP knowing karen was going to throw her the next day as well. at least if charli gave up runs early we had the offense to catch up (on paper, walters shut us down & couldn’t make adjustments)