In a game featuring the two best hitting teams in baseball and a matchup of Kyle Wright versus Rick Porcello, you wouldn’t figure that the result would be a pitcher’s duel (or maybe you would, in which case, good on you!). But, that’s exactly what happened, at least until Porcello departed and Atlanta hammered the New York relief corps, en route to a 7-0 victory, their 31st of the season.
The big story in this game was Kyle Wright. Coming off a decent start in which he outlasted Max Scherzer last Sunday, Wright absolutely sparkled in this outing, throwing 6 1⁄3 frames of one-hit, one-walk, zero-run ball.