MacKenzie Gore gave up two, two-run home runs in the second inning of his five-inning, 82-pitch outing last week in Atlanta.
Gore gave up five runs total in the start, but he wrapped things up with 10-straight outs.
“We had just one bad inning again, right?” manager Davey Martinez said in assessing Gore’s 13th start this season, in which he extended an eight-start winless streak (0-4, 4.71 ERA, 4.70 FIP, .287/.335/.521 line against in 42 IP).
“But what I loved was the fact that MacKenzie came back out there and retired 10 in a row with [39] pitches.