Corbin Burnes needed seventeen pitches to settle in for his first postseason start. In that time, he’d uncharacteristically walk two batters, deliver a wild pitch, strikeout one batter, and get out of the inning unscathed.
Burnes, who has been solid all year on his way to an ERA title and a division-winning season, often without much run support and less defensive support than projected from the team behind him, needed an assist. He’d get it in the form of a timely double play. Ozzie Albies hit a chopper of a groundball up the first base line. Rowdy Tellez fielded it, tagged the bag, hten fired a relay to Omar Narváez, who picked the low throw just in time to tag Jorge Soler, who was racing from third to home.