LaRussa and Rollins

People are saying Cardinals Manager Tony LaRussa told P Adam Wainwright to throw a strike on a 3-0 count to Jimmy Rollins in the 8th inning of the Cardinals win over the Phillies on opening day. What's the uproar? This isn't a manager telling his pitcher to pipe fastballs to someone going for a home run record. The Cardinals were way ahead (8 runs, I think) at the time. Walking a player with no one on and two outs (which was the case) is the cardinal sin, not giving up a double. When you are up big late in the game, you try to get the hitters out, but you do so without walking people. Wainwright would have been at fault for walking Rollins not because he would have ended Rollins' hit streak, but because he would be giving an opponent a free pass up big late in the game. Good for LaRussa for telling his pitcher to do what any decent manager would ... it's really not that complicated!