There is both beauty and frustration in pitcher’s duels. They typically make for an abbreviated game on time due to a lack of balls in play. It’s exciting to see a pair of opposing starters and the bullpens shut down the hitters, but my biggest complaint is that it can make for a difficult recap. Good thing there was free baseball to give me content at the end!
Jon Duplantier made his second career start and was far more successful than his first last week against the New York Mets. However, just as he did on May 31st Duplantier was only able to complete the fifth inning, albeit for different reasons this time.