Well in that particular instance, JV was having real trouble finding the plate. There are instances where it makes sense to take even that goos a pitch and I suspect this was one of them.
I don't think I have ever seen such a stretch where JV threw so many balls in a stretch like that. Come to think of it, I don't know what his ball-strike percentages are tonight but he might have a higher ball-strike percentage for the game so far than I have seen from him before.