I gotta say I was pleasantly surprised to catch Zac Gallen’s first start of the season, though given how quickly he was back after that weird stress fracture in his arm, I wasn’t sure what to expect. While he wasn’t particularly sharp—no perfectly clean innings and big pitch counts in each inning he pitched—he still looked pretty good. So that was nice.
After going up 0-2 on A’s leadoff batter Mark Canha, Gallen threw the next four pitches for balls, which wasn’t a good sign, and one out later he surrendered a Jed Lowrie single to shallow left, advancing Canha to third.