The YouTube broadcast for today’s game interviewed professional ballhawk Zack Hample for 15 minutes prior to the game before releasing him into the video’s comment section with other safe baseball-adjacent brands to make astute observations like “Nice hit!” and “That’s a long single!”.
And then things somehow got worse.
Logan Allen, hoping to recover from a rough outing against the Yankees last weekend, allowed three of the first four batters to homer. The only one who didn’t hit one out of the park, Nelson Cruz, walked and was brought home by Jorge Planco anyway.
Simply put, Allen had nothing today in his 1.