Posted By:
Tim Newcomb"This is World Class stupidity, never been equalled in baseball history."
Maybe that comment was meant in fun, but I can think of plenty of sound reasons why a manager might decide to leave his starter in after giving up three consecutive home runs, much less two.
-- bases remain empty-- 1 swing can mean only 1 more run
-- weakest hitters in the opposing lineup are up, and the odds are drastically with the manager's bet that they can't all club homers
-- tired bullpen, or manager has little confidence in pen
-- 162 games is a long season
-- starter is at least throwing strikes 
Hardly qualifies as world-class stupidity to me.
Now giving up Clemens, that's a whopper of the first order. What is Duquette doing now, anyway?