Friends, we’ve seen some baaaad Charlie Morton starts, but I don’t know if we’ve ever seen anything as grim as this. Though the bats and gloves had their work cut out for them, they didn’t disappoint, as a big offensive effort gave the Braves a solid lead and an eventual 8-4 win in the series opener in St. Louis.
The offense wasted little time, even before it was known that Morton was going to struggle. Ronald Acuña Jr. started the game by reaching on a bouncer to third. He was then thrown out trying to steal, in the first of many unfortunate-but-not-ultimately-problematic occurrences in this game.