The Joe Nuxhall Memorial Honorary Star of the Game
Yeah, Robert Stephenson walks a lot of guys. He did it on Tuesday, even. But the one more and more defined way to describe Bob’s starts of late is that he’s become awfully, awfully hard to hit, too.
So, despite the fact that he walked 5 Milwaukee Brewers in his 6 IP, the Cincinnati Reds rookie allowed just 4 hits, fanning 7 in his 102 pitch outing. He’s dropped his season ERA from needing an exponent to just 5.15 with his overall solid performance from the last month, which is precisely the kind of refining we’d all hoped to see in a 2017 season that was dedicated explicitly for these kinds of things.