I've reassessed. After watching the last part of the game, I can't blame Storen (mostly) or if I do blame Storen, I have to blame every reliever who was left in the bullpen. My rule, generally, is that I don't blame the pitching when the offense scores 3 or fewer runs. Are we going to expect the pitching staff to give up 2 or fewer runs, which is what would have to happen in order to win a game when your offense scores 3 or fewer? Sometimes they do but it's certainly not an expectation.
After watching the end of the game, I noticed that the Phillies used two relievers whose numbers are as bad or worse than Storen's, Durbin (ERA almost 8; WHIP 1.93) and Horst (ERA almost 5; WHIP 1.61). Using Durbin is waiving the white flag against almost every other offense in baseball. We got runners on first and second w/no outs, against these two relievers, and got nothing. No runner even got to third. At that point, we should have figured out, that if they couldn't score against these two terrible relievers (which is usually the case, just change the names of the terrible relievers), there was a strong likelihood that they weren't going to score anymore, period (which turned out to be true). So, it would have been one of the other relievers' heads in the noose for giving up the run that put us behind, if not Storen. Storen just happened to be the schlub on the mound when it happened.
Now, this doesn't excuse how badly Storen has pitched this season but I'm less reflexive about his part in this debacle.
