Michael Blazek hasn’t pitched in the majors since July 27, 2017, when he gave up six homers in 2 1⁄3 innings of work on the mound, five of them in the third inning, when Brian Goodwin, Wilmer Difo, Bryce Harper, and Ryan Zimmerman went back-to-back-to-back-back before a fifth home run by Anthony Rendon one out later ended his outing in Nationals Park in what was his first major league start (109th big league appearance).
On Monday afternoon, Blazek returned to the nation’s capital, called up to Washington, D.