Let’s get the hard part out of the way…Charlie Morton looked good yesterday. His fastball was lively. His curveball was filthy. His pitch to Kris Bryant, in which Bryant deposited over the left field fence, was a really good pitch. When a team comes into a game with a sub .100 batting average with 2 outs and runners in scoring position, one would expect for the baseball gods to intervene. They did.
From there, Matzek came in, looked good in 1 inning then couldn’t find the plate in the next and gave up a 450 foot dinger to Wilson Contreras.