Plants make growing look fun and easy. Look, this little seed has sprouted! Now it’s growing leaves! Now it’s flowering! Now it’s making a perfect tiny strawberry! But often, growth is painful. It involves recognizing that something isn’t working and being forced to change it, which is often uncomfortable and usually somewhat scary, like if that perfect tiny strawberry suddenly grew a row of sharp little teeth.
Bryce Miller made the bigs on the strength of his riding fastball. It’s his go-to pitch, his primary weapon, his safety blanket. But man cannot live by fastball alone, and tonight Miller learned that lesson in a painful way, facing down a team that loves hitting the fastball and possesses significantly more firepower than his previous combatants.