if the goal was to fix all the issues we can see with our own two eyes in the offseason, what gets you closer to that goal: an embarrassing 1-sided sweep to the most hated team in baseball, or losing 3-1 on your home field?
if it goes 5 and they lose in Houston, that would really fuck up the chances of fixing our issues, the mouth pieces in the media and the front office guys will use that as an excuse to say "hey, look, we battled back, this lineup is fine, the pitching was tired, we don't need to change much "