If you ignore the number of runs starting pitcher Blaine Knight gave up (five), it wasn’t a bad pitching line. Knight gave up five hits, walked one, and struck out eight in five innings. Not bad! Unfortunately, those hits were timed perfectly to cause the most damage. A single followed by an RBI double in one inning, a walk and then a homer, and a triple followed by a single.
A pair of 40-man pitchers followed Knight in relief. Beau Sulser pitched two scoreless inning, and Marcos Diplán pitched the final two, giving up a two-run homer in the ninth.