Summarizing Ryan Weathers’ 2021 season

Photo by Harry How/Getty ImagesLet’s go back to April 16, 2021. It was a Friday night at Petco Park and the first of 19 games between the Dodgers and Padres this season. Walker Buehler was on the mound for Los Angeles while San Diego, on the other side, had a shaky pitching plan for that night. The starter was Ryan Weathers because a starter was hurt.

Weathers wasn’t expected to go very deep and nobody would’ve blinked an eye if he struggled because he was facing arguably the best offense in baseball. He surprised many of us with his performance, going 3.2 shutout innings and allowing just one hit.

He would continue to have those quality types of starts all the way up until the end of July…