Agreed, there's no conspiracy here, just a team building issue. To be helpfully candid, hopefully -- in any park, I wouldn't set these 8*-inning pitchers (Hilton Smith in this case) to only F8 and then have the three R1 relievers in the pen, who are righty/lefty specialists to begin with. F8 is a relative quick hook. So, that's what happens. When you have a home park like Braves '38 in an $80 or $100M cap, only use *9 starters (less fatigue), use F0 (yes!), slow hooks, conservative relief, and then a cheap, very specialist bullpen, maybe one slightly more expensive guy with almost even splits around $1M -- I like Clem Dreisewerd at .99M. That's all you need for the Four Aces Strategy, which is a winning approach, more often than not. In a pitcher's park, ironically, you need to spend more on your offense to earn runs, and need great defense up the middle.
Hal chose to pull my pitcher in the first inning after 2 outs even though i had him set for F8 and slow and the minute he hit F8 he was yanked.
Of course, after giving up 6 runs within an inning, Hal will pull your pitcher. F8 will result in this.
Just my 2 cents.