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| the light, in fairness, was lovely |
This was a pretty good baseball game! Aside from how we slightly lost, I have no real complaints. Kevin Gausman has pitched better, surely, than four runs in six innings, but that's not a dreadful outing against the best team in baseball this year (even better than the Dodgers! sounds strange, but you can check yourself! it's totally true!). The two Atlanta runs in the first weren't great, but our pal Kazuma Okamoto tied it up a half-inning later on a fairly mighty two-run "oppo" wallop. Our third run came by way of a Nathan Lukes single, a truly ripped Vladdy double, and a Daulton Varsho sacrifice fly (all of these fine things occurred in a promising sixth whose promise was not fully realized [ah, but who among us {and yet, who are we kidding}]); alas that there was no fourth run to be had, though, in truth, I guess we would have needed five, eventually. It was an easy night, at least, for our well-used bullpen, asking just an inning of Braydon Fisher, two outs from Mason Fluharty, and just the one from Connor Seabold. That's one upside of losing a game on the road, I suppose: the bullpen gets an inning off right at the end there. Just think how fresh they'll be for Game Two! Which I believe is a Patrick Corbin start! And more importantly Game Three, which is for sure a bullpen day! We're saving it up.
KS
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