It's really not fair to say that I'm using hindsight. How do you know that I wasn't sitting there watching the game, hoping they'd walk Ichiro?
I wasn't worried about Ichiro hitting a HR. However, I was worried about a single, and a tie game. Remember, the Yankees are on the road and would have already used Hughes and Rivera. Not to mention Robertson is unavailable. If they tie the game there, they likely lose anyway. If I'm Girardi I'm playing for the win, and my best chance to accomplish that is to pitch to Franklin Guitterez instead of Ichiro.