I only had that ominous feeling when Little left Pedro in too long. You knew it, I knew it, the world knew it, except Little and Martinez.
You and I know there are no such thing as curses. But their is psychology. Both Dusty Baker and Grady Little had a bit of arrogance about all of this. When things start going badly. Pull the damn pitcher don't give your team the opportunity to start questioning if there are higher cosmic realities mitigating against your success. Nagging doubts can lose ballgames.