Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but there was nothing sexy about Bartolo Colon’s performance on Monday night — specifically in the first inning, which was basically when the game was decided as the Astros ended up cruising to victory.
The first inning of this game went about as bad as you could imagine for the Braves. Charlie Morton made quick work of the top three batters in Atlanta’s lineup, and then the top of Houston’s lineup feasted on a diet of fastballs from Colon. Jose Altuve brought in the first run of the game with an RBI single, and then Carlos Correa broke the game open with a moonshot of a three-run homer to the batter’s eye in dead center that made it 4-0.