After a back-and-forth four starts to his 2021 campaign, Triston McKenzie’s start this afternoon looked like it be another in the “pretty good” column through the first 1.2 innings.
McKenzie was dominant, aggressive, and accurate in the first frame. He fanned all three batters he faced, and his velocity was approaching 93. All good things. As Matt Underwood and Rick Manning put it, it was as if McKenzie came out of the game with the mentality of being aggressive in a relief outing. The hope was that he would find a way to maintain that over several innings.