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Yeah, there's definitely a lot here that doesn't quite look right at a glance, but hard to say what exactly is going on. The AI is definitely more aggressive in playoff games, and I would expect that even late in a 9-2 or 10-2 game they would usually be pinch hitting for any pitchers.
The main exceptions I can see are if one of those guys who batted was the two-way pitcher, they generally speaking won't pinch hit for them. That could account for one of those ABs. The early case where they let the reliever hit I think is fair, given that's the 3rd inning, although given he was removed a batter into the next inning, that doesn't match correctly since it doesn't even seem like it was because he was getting into trouble.
So yeah, I'm sure there are some things we can tune from this, but as alluded by others, the more information available, the easier it is to dig down. Even in a case like this double-checking what situations the pitchers were coming up in could point to where the problems lie most.
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