Vince Velasquez deserved better.
Pitching one of the better games of his life, Velasquez kept putting up zeroes for most of the game. Entering the sixth without having surrendered a run and still not that close to 100 pitches, he looked like he still had some gas in the tank.
Then he met Vladito.
The game was moving along quite rapidly. It wasn’t crisp, what with another error from the defense and several walks allowed by Velasquez, but he and his counterpart Steven Matz were blanking the offenses, not giving up any runs. When Vlad Guerrero, Jr.