This was a deeply peculiar baseball game to me. We had last year’s hologram pitcher, Eduardo Rodriguez, taking the mound for us, facing off against Mitchell Parker, one of the Nationals’ more promising young pitchers, in a duel of left handed pitchers. As 1AZFan1 noted in their exemplary series preview, this looked to be a tough one for us, as Parker kept the Phillies scoreless through nearly seven innings in his first start of the season, while ERod was, well, ERod.
That said, if I were to tell you that one starter struck out 12 of the 15 batters he faced, while only surrendering four hits and one solitary walk, I wouldn’t blame you for thinking that I was talking about the winning pitcher.