From the very first batter he faced, it was clear that Thursday night would not be a typical Jacob deGrom day.
If not for some late inning heroics to tie the game, he would have gotten a loss, but Dom Smith’s first multi-homer game flipped that script. Instead, the loss went to Seth Lugo, whose costly and foolish error sparked the Braves’ 4-3 walkoff win.
Lugo made an errant throw to first while falling to the ground fielding Guillermo Heredia’s infield bleeder in the ninth inning. Heredia came around to score on Freddie Freeman’s single that banked off Lugo’s foot, putting the finishing touches on a wild night and a decisive inning when the ball never left the infield.