Nope.
The Starts
After the game, Dylan Cease said he was happy with his start, because he corrected the issues that found him walking seven batters and hitting one. Sure, but when you trade wildness for straight heat that gets clobbered over the fence by a team that came in with zero offensive prowess, that’s the wrong kind of correction. To wit, Cease had a 40 game score in Cincinnati, just 26. Since the first four games of the season (where Lucas Giolito (14), Reynaldo López (16) and Cease himself (17) took turns sucking), there have been just two worse games than Cease’s tonight: Jonathan Stiever’s turkey of a second start (0) and López (25).