It’d be hard to imagine a starker contrast in starting pitchers than tonight’s matchup of two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom, one of the greatest pitchers in the game, against Brandon Young, an unknown thrower who went undrafted in 2019 and had just two career MLB starts before tonight. DeGrom is making $37 million a year and has a 100-mph fastball; Young was called up from the minors this morning and—actually Young’s stuff looked fine, but he doesn’t have a good enough fastball to get away with many mistakes.
And Young made several: the 6’6” right-hander allowed an early run on a pair of doubles, two more on a Josh Jung home run, and he got yanked in the fifth after walking the leadoff runner.