Not to press the worn-out Cease-and-desist line or anything, but if Dylan Cease could desist from starting badly, the kid should have a future. But those openings innings? Yuk.
This time around it was only two innings of wildness in and out of the zone, but that was enough to Cease talk of a good game (okay, enough of that). Dylan got through the first inning on 21 pitches with some help from a strike zone roughly the size of Brazil, which existed for both teams early, but paid the price in inning two.
The bottom of the second went walk, Avi Garcia single, walk, and, on a 3-2 count, a slider to Travis d’Arnaud that caught too much of the plate: