Archer is definitely not broken. It's weird, he's still striking out a bunch of folks, and even managed to strike out five today through only five innings of work. But he needs some target practice or something because the poor fellow seems to always be behind, or putting men on base through the free pass. In the first inning alone, Archer walked three men, even issuing the dreaded bases-loaded BB to score one the inning's three runs.
In the third, the M's even padded the lead with a Nelson Cruz home run. All of a sudden, the M's have an pretty formidable heart of the order, with Robinson Cano and Nelson Cruz batting back-to-back, rivaling Mike Trout and Albert Pujols for AL West batting supremacy.