Spoiler Alert (and not about the baseball game): If you have not seen the endings of any classic Hollywood con man/con woman movies, you may want to skip this recap, or at least not watch the videos embedded.
Somewhere during the bottom of the fourth inning, it struck me. Chris Archer is in on this.
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Chris Archer has had a rather frustrating 2018 season. He now owns a 4.31 ERA, and he is under-performing his FIP for the fourth straight season.
His last two outings have been quality starts, but he has lacked a certain pizzazz this season (irony of his last outing including 13 strikeouts, noted, but it really just doesn’t have the same feel when it comes with three runs and eight hits against the Marlins attached to it).