His last start at AAA was more pitches and more innings than he had going into the 5th last night. Not a crazy idea to let him come out for one more inning. It just didn't work results-wise, but he needs the innings and the pitches to build back up.
Yep. At the end of the day, it was 83 pitches and they were monitoring him closely with more data than any of us have. He was babied.