How to frame this?
How about: walk, HBP, walk, and then this little 430-footer:
That’s about all you really need to know.
Losing to the Braves isn’t exactly embarrassing, though losing this badly certainly is. The bad news long-term is that it took Michael Kopech, fresh off of the IL, 38 pitches (only 14 of them strikes) to get through two-thirds of an inning. That’s just less than half as many pitches as it took Atlanta starter Charlie Morton to get through seven (well, OK, he really needed 83, but that’s close to twice 38, and it is the numbers three and eight reversed).