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Strider dominates, but Braves hurt themselves in confusion, lose 3-0 to Blue Jays

Baseball’s a funny game. Every contest between teams is different, and every day, you’ll see something you haven’t before. Success doesn’t come from having one awesome game; at best, over the course of the season, success is winning just a handful more games than another team. Sometimes, that can be sad: a great, fist-pumping game is just that, a single game. Sometimes, it’s a measure of salvation: a horrible game, like the one the Braves just played in Toronto, is just a game. But boy, what a game it was.

The best way to describe this game from the Braves’ perspective, I think, is “confusion.