For the Braves, Sunday’s 7-0 defeat at the hands of the Nationals was a series of “couldn’t”s. The Braves couldn’t sweep the Nats. Max Fried couldn’t get back on track, and turned in an outing that, combined with his shelling in Philadelphia last time out, gave him his worst two-start stretch of the season. The Braves couldn’t get anything going offensively. The bullpen couldn’t strand Fried’s baserunners. Oh well. It happens.
Fried’s undoing came fairly quickly in this one. He worked around a two-out walk in the first, but struggled as soon as the second.