This one got out of hand late, but it looked like it was going to get out of hand much earlier than that. Zac Gallen got off to his now routine rough start. He was able to strand a pair of 2-out walks in the first, but then had his blow-up inning in the second. A pair each of doubles and singles led to 3 Atlanta runs scored and Gallen’s pitch count ballooned to 59. To his credit, he settled down nicely and only required 44 pitches to complete the next 3 innings, retiring the next 9 men in order, but the damage of that disastrously high pitch count through the first two innings killed any chance he had of getting very deep into the ballgame.
Diamondbacks 2, Braves 8: Country Blunder
