Are we breathing? Are we good? Man, that was a butt clenching, edge of your seat game for the most part.
Walker Buehler just can’t get out of his own ways, which is frustrating and hopefully illuminating to Craig Breslow as he has big decisions to make this week. If there’s any glaring place to address, it has to be the rotation. Five walks for him, and frankly nine total for the staff in the game, is a big problem. It could have ended a lot more disastrous than the actual result.
It only took one counterpunch of a frame to finalize the run scoring in this one.