“We were lucky to come away with a victory,” said Brandon Palmer in the postgame interview. “Craig Kimbrel is getting his just deserts right now.”
Kimbrel got his first victory of the year by giving up a long ball to pinch-hitting Luke Maile and being scheduled to pitch when Ian Happ doubled to the right-field wall to plate Kyle Schwarber, who had singled. There were plenty of other highlights, viewable above.
Today’s rubber game features Jameson Taillon (0-3, 7.81) against the one and only Yu Darvish (2-2, 4.