Saturdays have been rough going so far in this young season, and realizing earlier this week that I was going to pull a Ryne Nelson start for my third recap, I was not overjoyed. In fact, I may have even been beginning to rough out a possible recap adaptation of a lengthy and dirge-like Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem, which I imagined I might title “The Ryne and the Aged Manager”. Happily, I didn’t need to use it, so it’s in my back pocket still for later.
So yeah. Ryne Nelson, he of the rather grotesque first start and the adequate but not inspiring second start, came into this game looking like the guy most likely to get bounced from the starting rotation once Jordan Montgomery joins us next week.