Sometimes, you’re the team that hits a bunch of homers in a win. Sometimes, you’re the team whose fly balls don’t do much of anything while you get outhomered 2-0, and lose a close game to drop out of the NL East lead... for the moment. Sometimes, that last thing even happens when you’re riding an eight-game winning streak. It happens!
This game started out as a pretty cool duel between the extremely-effective pitching of Max Fried and George Kirby. Through four innings, both hurlers allowed just a couple of singles — Fried’s both came in the first but led to no damage, while Kirby erased one on a double play in the first, and stranded the other on second after a stolen base.