Jharel Cotton wasn’t as bad as allowing five earned runs in 4 1⁄3 innings would suggest, but I would not call him the dominant pitcher we saw last September. Cotton gave up three runs in the second on a number of opposite field flares to the bottom half of the Angels lineup. In the fifth, he conceded two more on somewhat harder hit singles.
Bleeps and bloops will happen, and runs will score on them, but the best way to come back from those sorts of things is to, you know, score some runs.