Look, it's all hypothetical speculation, and I don't buy into the theory ...... but the theory is, Stras would have won game 1 - the game Gio won, and Gio would have won game 2. Who know what would have happened in 3 and 4 (win one and it's over, maybe Detwilier wins game 4, maybe not) but Stras would have pitched game 5 and we would have avoided the Gio choke.
Like I said, I don't buy any of it, and mainly because by the time Stras was shut down he was pitching like garbage.