Again, this isn't a football season. Football mentality will lose you games when applied to baseball, especially in the regular season.
We're not playing to win the game right now, we're playing to give ourselves the best opportunity for success in the post season. And going max effort and using all your bullets on a game like today's isn't necessarily the best way to do that. If the pen and bench guys can rally and pull one out of the fire, cool, but going crazy and blowing through your pen down 7-0 isn't the best way to do that.