Record: 59-44. Pace: 93-69. Change on 2016: +17.
Of course, we’ve been here before. It was April 2015, when Archie Bradley was hit in the head by a line-drive. Anyone who remembers that will know it was the kind of thing you never want to see again. But it happened once more tonight, with Robbie Ray taking a laser off the back of the head, with one out in the bottom of the second. The ball off the bat of Luke Voit was measured at 108 mph. He crumpled to the ground, and that horrible lump in the throat suddenly arrived.