If Keri runs the first and fourth legs Dorothy can run the second and third, which saves a handoff. And since over 20 seconds per 100 is record time for them they need every edge they can get.
Exactly. There’s no such thing as a potentially clinching play with 3:15 left. But there’s also no such thing these days as a Gil Thorp strip without an embarrassing error.
The sad thing is she almost dropped it.