Well, that was a gut punch.
In a game where Hunter Brown allowed one earned run across six innings, and the Astros lineup without Yordan Alvarez answered the call, the ending was cruel. Such is life and such is baseball, I suppose. It also doesn’t help that Bryan Abreu couldn’t locate a slider.
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To be fair, the pitch that Anthony Santander hit for a grand slam wasn’t a bad fastball. It was at eyeball level outside of the strike zone. The fact that Santander got a hold of it speaks more to his ability than Abreu in that one moment.