Full disclosure: I was totally dreading this one as we were coming up on first pitch. I read ISH’s series preview earlier in the afternoon, and his assessment of the challenges our offense would face against a terrifying Braves starting rotation seemed bleak but perfectly apt. Bryce Elder, Atlanta’s starter today, was rocking a 7-1 record and a sub-3.00 ERA going into this game, and facing off against him was, well, Zach Davies. Given that we only managed to score nine runs in three games in Toronto this weekend, and given that the wretched performance there seemed to be a continuation of a disturbing trend that we’d been seeing for the last couple of series before the All-Star Break, and given that our bullpen has been increasinly disappointing of late on a game-by-game basis, I imagine that I wasn’t alone in not going into this one with high hopes.
Arizona Cardinals 16, Atlanta Falcons 13: Football in July!
