Today is ripe for one of those off-the-wall, wildly creative writeups that distracts attention from the hideousness of the game.
But, call it an Eloy Jiménez Service Time Manipulation Paradox, but I ain’t got it in me.
Lucas Giolito flushed much of his recent momentum and good fortune with a car crash of a second inning. How devastating a crash was it, Brett? Well, friends, Giolito took 41 pitches to record one — one — out, getting knocked out of the box with one out in the second. So in the process of recording four outs in the game, the lanky righthander surrendered four hits and four earned, five total runs, two walks and three Ks.