It's obvious Adam Wainwright was disappointed and frustrated by this lost tonight, which is understandable, and he's probably just looking to deflect blame for tonight's loss off of Matt Holliday, but his post-game comments that the fans waving white towels were the reason Holliday misplayed James Loney's liner tonight is a bit far-fetched.
Are we to believe, that with the Dodgers all but dead, even when Loney hit the ball, and facing a loss, that the fans at the stadium were waving those white towels in a frenzy before Holliday misjudged that liner? Holliday even acknowledged that he lost it in the lights. So why did Wainwright feel the need to put the blame on the Dodgers for handing out white towels instead of Dodger blue towels? Why did he feel the need to blame the fans for waving those towels when even video replay showed they weren't being waved until after the ricocheted off Holliday?
The towels played no part in the outcome of the game, whether Wainwright, or the good folks on MLB Network, or even ESPN, want to believe that. It's a shame that the Dodgers, or to some effect, the fans, will somehow be blamed for this because of those white towels. But hey, if that's what's going to make Wainwright feel a little better about all of this, then so be it.
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