The arms in the pen are hanging like limp noodles from too much use. Bard's pitch count was low. He was fresh, but he blew it. THe problem is that every time Bard gets in a pressure situation, he blows up. He did it last year in September.
Bard wasn't gassed. He lost focus and just didn't make the pitches in the biggest part of the game. As Schilling has said several times, the difference between winning and losing is the execution of about half a dozen pitches. Bard didn't execute. He lost his focus and kind of choked. Doubront seems to do the same thing when he is trying to wrap up his starts. The two of them need to handle things better in the late innings. They need to grow a pair and keep their stuff together at the end. This is mainly on Bard and the rest is on Albers.