A day after the latest MLB debut by a Florida Gator, another one swatted two big flies.
Brian Johnson could've opened his MLB career by facing a former Florida Gator in Cole Figueroa, but the New York Yankees sending Figueroa back to the minors just before the end of a weekend series between the two teams earlier this month helped scuttle that.
Instead, he made that debut on Tuesday — but it wasn't exactly a great one.
Johnson allowed just four earned runs in the contest, but that was enough — especially with three of them coming in the fifth inning, when he was yanked with one out — to help the Houston Astros come back from a 3-1 deficit for an 8-3 win, and to charge him with the loss in his MLB debut.