The only thing better than beating inferior teams is not having to even play the full game. Rain shortened this one as Max Fried had come out to begin the 7th inning. He had only thrown 76 pitches, so he had plenty more in him, but it’s nice to limit his pitches and innings any way you can.
Fried has had 3 stretches to this season. His first 12 appearances, 10 of them starts, amounted to 56.1 IP, 51 K, 13 BB, 50 H, and a 2.88 ERA. When you start the year like that, people start referring to as a potential All-Star.