Remember back a few games ago, when there was a cavalcade of laments about the state of the team's starting pitching, driven largely by some shoddy defensive play almost nightly? Well, the Braves have now thrown three straight shutouts, and it feels like even those complaints happened an eternity ago. Bottom line: Spencer Strider and the bullpen stifled the Giants as the offense scored a few early and never looked back in another breezy win for the Braves.
Strider was perfect through three, but Alex Cobb didn't have anything akin to that level of success early on. Ronald Acuña Jr.